David Diliberto is an American artist and filmmaker currently residing in Venice, California.
Diliberto has studied film, art and photography formally and independently at schools and studios in North Carolina, New York and Los Angeles. While the primary focus of his professional career has been filmmaking, Diliberto has never stopped his own work image making - whether in drawing, painting or photography. Since moving to California, he has devoted concentration to painting and more recently, photo collage. His focus on figurative work has evolved over different mediums and broadened combinations of subjects - melding the iconic and the abstract. His varied influences range from Vincent Van Gogh to Mike Kelly.
Diliberto's film work covers many fields including producing, editing, writing and directing. As a longtime collaborator of Joel and Ethan Coen, Diliberto was a part of several innovations in post-production technologies. He supervised the first Digital Intermediate on a full feature with the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?. The Coens' stylized film noir, The Man Who Wasn't There, provided analog hurdles rather than digital ones when several prints of that black & white film burned in projectors. The special film stock used for the movie had a high silver content and had never been used for printing or projection. Trailing the industry abandonment of old-school film editing techniques, Diliberto configured Final Cut Pro systems that could emulate the Coens' idiosyncratic method of editing in a digital realm. Intolerable Cruelty was the first major studio feature edited on Apple Computer's Final Cut Pro software.
Diliberto's filmography ranges a wide spectrum of work - from narrative to documentaries, serious to comedic, musical to political.
