Eli Hayes

Eli Hayes

Nascimento : 1993-11-05, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Morte : 2020-05-23

História

Eli Grier Hayes (November 6th, 1993 - May 23rd, 2020) was an independent experimental filmmaker from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He fell in love with cinema at a relatively early age upon viewing the works of directors such as James Benning and Chantal Akerman. Eli began screenwriting as he entered high school, and directed his first short films, "The Life That Follows" and "Nobody," during his senior year. While enrolled at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York -- where he received his bachelor's degree in abnormal psychology, with a minor in creative writing -- he founded Hazel Eye Productions. Eli has since directed, produced & edited more than twenty-five feature films, and approximately fifty short films. His work has been screened at over seventy festivals across six continents, including The Beijing International Short Film Festival, Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival, The Pune Short Film Festival, The Princeton Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival Melbourne, and The Milwaukee Short Film Festival, as well as venues such as Anthology Film Archives and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 2017, he graduated from Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee with a master's degree in film & creative media, and went on to become the Project Manager at The Nashville Film Institute. He was also a long, prominent figure on the social media website, Letterboxd, where he often promoted his own work and helped spread awareness of multiple, under-seen works from other established and newcomer filmmakers. In 2019, Eli had relocated back to his home city of Milwaukee, where he was working on several different projects, both short form and feature length, before passing away on May 23rd, 2020 at the age of 26.

Perfil

Eli Hayes

Filmes

Morning Has Broken
Executive Producer
A young runaway girl moves in with a seemingly harmless, elderly, Academy Award-winning songwriter. It all seems perfectly normal, until his dark side unleashes a chain reaction of ghastly events.
The Projected Rays
Editor
A short, ambient/contemplative film that's visuals attempt to embody both the moving image, as well as the act of projecting the moving image (hence the title), i.e. the majority of the film is characterized by white light/an artificial incarnation of "the light of a projector"
The Projected Rays
Director
A short, ambient/contemplative film that's visuals attempt to embody both the moving image, as well as the act of projecting the moving image (hence the title), i.e. the majority of the film is characterized by white light/an artificial incarnation of "the light of a projector"
Phantom Mary
Thanks
The faded and fragmented memories of a relationship that's perpetually under sedation.
These Days
Producer
A non-narrative documentation on the humanity of youth in their early 20s, the situations they find themselves in, the way they look at their futures, in years to come will they look back at these days?
Regarding the Case of Joan of Arc
Executive Producer
A radical Christian terrorist in the United States claims to hear the voice of God commanding her to attack federal buildings.
Countenances in the Concrete
Editor
A short, ambient/contemplative film directed by Eli Hayes & Perry Ruhland.
Countenances in the Concrete
Director
A short, ambient/contemplative film directed by Eli Hayes & Perry Ruhland.
Cloudburst
Music
A short, ambient/contemplative film, directed by Eli Hayes.
Cloudburst
Director
A short, ambient/contemplative film, directed by Eli Hayes.
A Fold in Space
Writer
Feature film by Eli Hayes.
A Fold in Space
Director
Feature film by Eli Hayes.
A Florida Melancholy
Director
At the beginning of the summer of 2018, filmmaker Eli Hayes, who has been struggling with depression for his entire life, fell deep into the inky chasms of the disease. Days later, Hayes was called down to Tallahassee, Florida for a job opportunity. While in Florida, the despondency grew more severe and eventually took complete control of his psychological well-being. Over the course of the summer, good days would occur sparsely and sporadically; on these days, Hayes would bring his camera outside to film the beauty of his environment, despite knowing full well that the dejection would soon return. “A Florida Melancholy” is a landscape film of emotional survival, comprised of the footage that Hayes shot while in Florida throughout the darkest season of his life, during which all that he could rely on for hope & direction were his camera, and his surroundings.