| A graduate of Harvard University's prestigious film program, Peter Lang has made his mark as an award-winning director of short films, commercials, and documentaries-when he's not shooting, he's probably sitting in his aerie at the offices of Pictures in a Row in the penthouse of the Hollywood Athletic Club working on something pretty interesting.
Beginning with his summa cum laude senior thesis film The Model, a short film written by classmate Chris Gerolmo (writer of Mississippi Burning), Lang has immersed himself in the process and meaning of film, of every stripe, for commerce and otherwise.
Before working in motion picture in earnest, Lang was a published and prize-winning photographer and painter with a serious interest in architecture and Le Corbusier and a penchant for playing his Les Paul goldtop in any one of a number of east and west coast bands (when he should have been reading another monograph about arms control in a nuclear age). He brings these disparate interests and experience to all of his work in film-renaissance abilities for a medium that wants them-and it shows.
Lang's work defies categorization: from his award-winning and human PSA for Words Can Heal, to his Brünhilde-with-a-spear anti-cellphone fantasy for Skytel/Motorola, to his portraiture and landscapes for Puerto Rico, to his combat-photography action for Mercedes, Lexus, and Honda, to his corporate poetry for Acura, Midwest Express, and Titleist-and his documentary about the Chinese in America; his collaboration with Chris Gerolmo on The Witness, a short featuring Elijah Wood set in a concentration camp; his film/installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art-Lang continues to break molds and transcend boundaries. Fantasy or verité, humanity or comedy, cars or countries, action or stasis, drama or information, Peter Lang lives and breathes film.
A creative spirit and intellect who can find common ground with just about everyone, Lang inspires all who work with him. Peter Lang-director, cinematographer, writer, editor, musician-artist.
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