Ray Tintori is an American

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, screenwriter and founding member of Court 13, the filmmaking collective behind ''

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''. He has directed three short films, as well as several

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for bands, such as

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The Killers The Killers are an American Rock music, rock band formed in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2001 by Brandon Flowers (lead vocals, keyboards, bass) and Dave Keuning (lead guitar, backing vocals). After the band went through a number of short-term bas ...

Arcade Fire Arcade Fire is a Canadian indie rock band from Montreal, Quebec, consisting of husband and wife Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, alongside Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury, and Jeremy Gara. The band's touring line-up includes former core ...

, and

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Personal life

Tintori graduated from

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in 2006, where he studied film, and from

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in 2001, where he was a studio art major. His father is John Tintori, a

film editor Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital ...

and Chair of NYU's Kanbar Institute of Film & Television and his mother is Mary Cybulski, a

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Works

Tintori's first two short films were heavily narrated, black & white, fantasy stories featuring numerous whimsical characters. His directorial debut was the 2005 short film ''Jettison Your Loved Ones'', which screened at the 2006

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.Bilge Ebiri
Filmmaker "Ray Tintori Reunites Father and Son, Blows Up Earth"
''

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'', nymag.com, January 3, 2008 ''

'' magazine referred to the film as "a deranged, no-budget sci-fi epic ..some of the most hypnotic and strange six minutes you’ll ever spend staring at a computer screen." His senior thesis film ''Death to the Tinman'' premiered at the 2007

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"Ray Tintori, Death to the Tinman"
''The Reeler'', thereeler.com, January 15, 2007 where it won a short filmmaking award. Tintori directed the music video for the MGMT's single " Time to Pretend". The video garnered attention on

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airwaves due to its colorful,

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style. Tintori also directed the videos for

's second and third singles, "

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" and " Kids", respectively. He also directed the videos for

' song " Spaceman" and "

's "Evident Utensil", which was nominated for an award in the "Breakthrough Video" category at the

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. In July, 2009,

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announced that Tintori would be directing ''Light Boxes'', an adaptation of the novel by

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. However, in May 2010, Jonze stated that Tintori was no longer working on the project, and in June 2010, Shane Jones said the film option had been dropped. In May, 2010, the Brooklyn Arts Council honored Tintori with a "premature retrospective", screening a number of his short films and other works. Tintori worked on Court 13's first feature film ''

'' as Aurochs and Special Effects Unit Director. Tintori participated in the

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's 2013 June Screenwriters Lab with his ''Untitled Cabal Project'', and his short film ''Cabal'' screened at the 2014 Borscht Film Festival. Tintori worked on ''

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'' as Practical SFX Unit Director. Pre-production and filming of the effects sequences took place under the mentorship of

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at Trumbull Studios in the Berkshire Mountains. In 2016, Tintori directed a trailer video for Google's Tilt Brush. In 2017, Tintori won a Sports Emmy for his work with Oculus on ''Follow My Lead: The Story of the 2016 NBA Finals'' starring

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and narrated by

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. In 2018, Tintori directed the ULP Orientation Video in the "Windmills" episode of ''

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''.

Filmography

Music videos

* "

" by

(2007) (Interactive video) * " Time to Pretend" by MGMT (2008) * "

" by MGMT (2008) * "Delivery Man" by

(2008) * " Spaceman" by

(2009) * "Evident Utensil" by

(2009) * " Kids" by MGMT (2009) * "Dressed to Digress" by Boy Crisis (2009) * "Crystallize" (YouTube Music Awards version) by

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(2013) * "Chemistry" by

(2018)

Short films

* ''Jettison Your Loved Ones'' (2005) * ''Death to the Tinman'' (2006) * ''Cabal'' (2014)

Personal life

Works

Filmography

Music videos

Short films

References

External links