Michael Haussman is an American director, writer, and artist, living in Rome, Italy.

[citation needed] Past films include: Rhinoceros Hunting In Budapest, starring Nick Cave, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival; Blind Horizon, starring Sam Shepard; The Unsinkable Henry Morgan, which also premiered at Sundance Film Festival; and The Audition, which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival.

In 2012 Michael Haussman's most art exhibition, Gravity, premiered at Los Angeles Pacific Design Center.

[1] Gravity was presented at Berlin Art Week, courtesy of Iconoclast Galleries.

As a painter, Haussman's solo art show Naturales, featuring large-scale matador and bull paintings (ink on paper), premiered at the Desoto gallery in Los Angeles and New York Scope Art Fair.