Furlined has signed three-headed directing team MANSON to its U.S. roster. MANSON’s three heads belong to Gerardo del Hierro, Pau López, and Tomás Peña, all currently living in Barcelona.
Furlined president Diane McArter described their work as, “uniquely raucous, audacious, elastic, playful, sophisticated, and surreal. With roots in design and animation, what’s so exhilarating is how freely MANSON move across filmmaking genres, deploying mixed- and cross-media juxtapositions to build eye-tickling visual stories.”
To be clear, MANSON is not a collective. Peña explained, “The word collective has a sort of hippie connotation and while we love that aesthetic (and the psychedelics), ‘firm’ more accurately describes the way we work. Our work is controlled improvisation. We plan everything meticulously, so we have room to discover things on set.”
Collaborating for nearly two decades, with a background in graphic design and animation, the members of MANSON have drawn on a mix of formal training and DIY to collaborate with clients across the globe on commercials and music videos. Their international brand collaborations include Adidas, Nike, Pirelli, and Instagram, and artists such as Katy Perry, The Prodigy, and Rosalía.
In January 2020, MANSON formed Bliss to expand their visual bag of tricks for any given project, leveraging their animation, VFX, photography, and design chops. López, del Hierro and Peña described Bliss as “another sandbox to play in, for us to evolve…to push our own boundaries. We don’t want to be safe.”
MANSON’s Amazon Prime series Romancero, which premieres worldwide on November 3, mashes up Spanish verité, American thrillers and Japanese anime into an entirely new form. It was created in collaboration with screenwriter Fernando Navarro.
In a joint statement, MANSON shared, “We chose Furlined for its savoir-faire and its charming people. At Furlined, visual poetry collides with the wild advertising game, executed at its best, with the global vision and passion for details to fulfill our biggest ambitions. And it feels like home already.”
Internationally MANSON is represented by Blur in Spain, Diplomat in France, Rekorder in Germany, Immigrant in Denmark and Brazil, and Kidzfrmnowhere in Japan.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More