The Biodiversity of Ernst Haeckel
For when you want to feel both scientific and dreamlike ideas.



For when you want to feel both scientific and dreamlike ideas.



Brian Murnion is a filmmaker, creative director, poet, and self-proclaimed intellectual scrub from Billings, Montana. He spends an unreasonable amount of time obsessing over the connective tissue between music, film, literature, and whatever else seems culturally or aesthetically significant at any given moment. His curation process is equal parts curiosity, fixation, and blind luck, driven by the irrational hope that brilliance is hiding in plain sight somewhere in the chaos.
His voice carried the quiet truth that even broken things can shine. Born in Montreal on September 21, 1934. Died in Los Angeles on November 7, 2016.
Romy Schneider and Alain Delon at Hotel Du Cap.Picture by Edward Quinn, May 11, 1959.
Birth follows a woman who is preparing to move on with her life after her husband’s death, when a ten-year-old boy appears and calmly insists that he is her husband reincarnated. I first saw this film in 2004, alone, late at night, at the Lagoon Theater in Uptown, Minneapolis. I remember wondering what sort of…
I like to come back to these images every once in a while.
Flying to New York today and “White Light / White Heat” during the flight. One of the better pop records ever recorded. The Velvet Underground was one of the last groups of the 19th century to accomplish a tour de force in creative innovation. Few artists can match, or even tentatively do what they did. We…
Pan Am ads fly high and still look great 50+ years later. Imagine creating something that would have a shelf life greater than a few years, not built around something gimmicky, but genuinely great. I think about this every waking minute of my life. One of my goals as a producer and director is to create…