"My intention was to show the way Giger literally lived within his art and made the uncanny, the sinister, and the scary his home."
Secluded behind the drawn shades of his Swiss chateau, sci-fi man-in-black H.R. Giger pioneered a sublimely creepy "bio-mechanical" aesthetic obsessed with birth, sex, and death. This month, one year after his death at age 74, the artist draws fresh attention with a new documentary Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World, opening Friday, and mini-festival running May 22 and 23 at New York's Museum of Art & Design.