Now a full-time filmmaker, Marc Schiller, was the founder and CEO of BOND Strategy and Influence (previously Electric Artists), is an accomplished advertising and marketing executive with decades of industry and entrepreneurial knowledge in the areas of brand strategy, creative corporate consulting, cultural curation and public relations.
In 1997, Schiller recognized the challenges posed by emerging technologies, such as the Internet, leading him to found the award-winning digital strategy and marketing firm Electric Artists. Schiller decided to rebrand Electric Artists as BOND Strategy and Influence in October 2011.
Schiller consulted on marketing strategy for a variety of film projects that include Banksy’s Academy Award-nominated film, Exit Through the Gift Shop and Asif Kapadia’s Senna. Prior to launching BOND, Schiller served as Corporate Vice President of House of Blues Entertainment, Inc. where he pioneered music and entertainment content on the internet to create a multi-platform presence for the brand. Before that, he developed motion pictures for Warner Brothers, TNT, and 20th Century Fox.
Schiller is also the co-founder of the Wooster Collective, a groundbreaking website that celebrates and showcases urban art around the world. In 2010, Marc co-produced the bestselling book from TASCHEN, Trespass: A History Of Uncommissioned Urban Art.
In 2015 Marc suffered a tragic stroke that ended his marketing career and leaving him unable to speak, perform any activities of daily living and work.
However, Marc’s film career continued with his documentary about his recovery from his stroke titled No Bone: Scars of Survival. The stroke left him with a language impairment known as aphasia and with cognitive deficits. From day one in the intensive care unit, his family and then Marc himself, documented his arduous recovery. No Bone is the culmination of Marc’s own chronicles of his battle towards recovery, as well as interviews with close friends, family, and colleagues. Despite Marc’s limited language abilities, he’s been able to work as the producer and director and worked with an editor since 2016 by giving directions via an application on a tablet. This documentary is a self-portrait of a man whose words have forsaken him, forcing him to adapt his life and find new ways of communicating.
Marc is currently working on a follow up book about street art called Trespass II.