Tim Rutili American musician, filmmaker, and visual artist. Founder and principle songwriter for critically acclaimed bands Califone and Red Red Meat. He is also a member of the Indie rock supergroupUgly Casanova, which included Modest Mouse singer Isaac Brock, producer and former Red Red Meat bandmate Brian Deck, and others. He is a frequent collaborator of Michael Krassner and Boxhead ensemble. He also appears on Joan of Arc's album Guitar Duets, performing a duet with Jeremy Boyle and Modest Mouse's Everywhere and His Nasty Parlour Tricks and The Moon & Antarctica. In addition to his work with Califone and Red Red Meat, over the past twenty-five years, Rutili has contributed to hundreds of albums by a diverse group of artists as a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter. He has composed and collaborated on music for television, documentary and feature films, Including; Beauty is Embarrassing, a PBS documentary about artist, designer and puppeteer, Wayne White and The Calling, a four hour PBS series exploring faith and religion. Feature film work includes; Here, Wellness, The Lost, Brawler, in collaboration with Michael Krassner on the score for Braden King’s feature filmThe Evening Hour. And contributions to the soundtracks for; Boss, Hannibal, The Vow, Stranger Than Fiction, Monogamy, 30 Days of Night, The Dinner, Waterloo Road and many others. Rutili has performed worldwide and provided a live musical score to numerous films and curated programs including: Early Abstractions by Harry Smith at Images Film Festival in Toronto, as a member of Boxhead Ensemble at Doclands Film Festival in Dublin, Stories, Maps and Notes from the Half Light- live, improvised score to short films by Gem Cohen, Laura Moya, Braden King, Grant Gee, Paula Froehle, Gustav Deutch and Barbara Meter. God Builds Like Frank Lloyd Wright: Califone and the Animated Films of Brent Green at Sundance, Braden King’s HERE at Sundance and MoMA. Most recently, Brent Green’s A Brief Spark Bookended by Darkness at FestivAll at the Clay Center in Charleston, WV. Rutili wrote and directed his first feature-length filmAll My Friends Are Funeral Singers in tandem with the creation of Califone's album of the same title. The film was accepted for competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The film screened with a live musical score at Sundance, SXSW, IFC center in New York, MCA in Chicago, and other festivals, museums, and theaters. He has directed short films and music videos for musicians and bands, Veruca Salt, Iron and Wine, David Yow, Califone, Bill Fay and many others.
