Ramon Bloomberg
From Videoville
Ramon Bloomberg was born in 1971 in Sheffield, England; a quarter Irish and three quarters cosmopolitan Jew. Raised in the outskirts of New York City, he made camera horror films as a teenager between 1986 and 1989. At the age of 18 he wanted to move to France and so tried to learn French by watching French New Wave films. He failed to learn French. His first piece shot on film was a 30-minute short he made in 1998. In 2000 his documentary film "Area K" was purchased and released by television channels and won awards at film festivals around the world. The film had a theatrical release in New York City and was very favourably reviewed by both the Village Voice and the New York Times. He then became an editor, made 3 short films in 2002 and began making music videos in 2004. he made his first commercial in 2006 age 35. Based in Brooklyn and working in the UK, USA, and France he is represented by the following production companies:
Colonel Blimp (UK music videos) (signed via antville) [1]
Blink (UK commercials)
Furlined (USA commercials and music videos)
Big (France) (also signed via antville) [reference?]
personal site: http://www.ramonbloomberg.com
myspace: http://www.myspace.com/ramonbloomberg
videos
- Metric - Calculation Theme (Apr 2004) - download
- My Robot Friend - The Power of Love (Apr 2004)
- Supersystem - Born Into the World (Apr 2005)
- Luke Temple - Private Shipwreck (Aug 2005) - antville post
- Broadcast - Tender Buttons / Stark Haze - Horse Territory (Nov 2005) (in early 2006 Ramon had to swap the music on this spec video since Broadcast whom he offered it for free didn't like it and wouldn't let him put it on his showreel) - antville post
- Maxïmo Park - I Want You to Stay (Jan 2006) - antville post
- The Raconteurs - Hands (July 2006) - antville post
films
- "Green Spirit" (June 2006) (short film set to "Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons" by Blonde Redhead) - antville post
- "Area K: A Political Fishing Documentary" a.k.a. "Gaza Fish" (2002) (hourlong documentary co-directed by Nadav Harel, Bloomberg was also cinematographer and composer) [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
- "An Occurrence of Warble" (short film) [7]
- "The Laverne Affair" (feature film, also story by Bloomberg) [8] [9]
- "Pro 48: A Suburban Fantasy" (feature film, also written and co-produced by Bloomberg) [10] [11]
commercials
"Natural Living" a.k.a. "Animals" for Novotel (Oct 2006) (music by Émilie Simon) - download
"Nouveaux choix" for EDF (Apr 2007) download
