Alex Proyas

Alex Proyas

Nascimento : 1963-09-23, Alexandria, Egypt

História

Alexander "Alex" Proyas is an Greek Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for directing the science fiction films The Crow, Dark City, I, Robot and Knowing. He employs a dark and stylized way of filming, usually in a post-apocalyptic setting. Throughout his career, his films have acquired a cult following.

Perfil

Alex Proyas

Filmes

Home Education - Le regole del male
Executive Producer
A brainwashed girl is convinced by her authoritarian mother that her dead father will resurrect if they prove their love for him. Until he begins to rot.
Mask of the Evil Apparition
Director of Photography
A young woman lost in a nocturnal, dreamlike city, with her twin psychic brothers who try to help her find her way home as she is pursued by a shadowy cult known as The Mysterious Ones.
Mask of the Evil Apparition
Editor
A young woman lost in a nocturnal, dreamlike city, with her twin psychic brothers who try to help her find her way home as she is pursued by a shadowy cult known as The Mysterious Ones.
Mask of the Evil Apparition
Producer
A young woman lost in a nocturnal, dreamlike city, with her twin psychic brothers who try to help her find her way home as she is pursued by a shadowy cult known as The Mysterious Ones.
Mask of the Evil Apparition
Writer
A young woman lost in a nocturnal, dreamlike city, with her twin psychic brothers who try to help her find her way home as she is pursued by a shadowy cult known as The Mysterious Ones.
Mask of the Evil Apparition
Director
A young woman lost in a nocturnal, dreamlike city, with her twin psychic brothers who try to help her find her way home as she is pursued by a shadowy cult known as The Mysterious Ones.
Strange Nostalgia
Director
A haunting short film made mostly during the lockdown, employing various remote collaboration techniques. The film explores the themes of memory, past lives and parallel universes through layered montage inspired by movies from the German Expressionist and Noir eras.
Phobos
Screenplay
A young woman loses her car one evening, and then can't shake the feeling that something is following her home.
Phobos
Director
A young woman loses her car one evening, and then can't shake the feeling that something is following her home.
Deuses do Egito
Producer
Bek é um mortal pacato que se considera apenas mais um soldado, e que vive em um Egito ancestral dominado por deuses e forças ocultas. Quando o impiedoso Set, deus da escuridão, toma o trono da nação e mergulha a sociedade no caos, o jovem se unirá a outros cidadãos e com o poderoso Deus Horus, para formar uma expressiva resistência.
Deuses do Egito
Director
Bek é um mortal pacato que se considera apenas mais um soldado, e que vive em um Egito ancestral dominado por deuses e forças ocultas. Quando o impiedoso Set, deus da escuridão, toma o trono da nação e mergulha a sociedade no caos, o jovem se unirá a outros cidadãos e com o poderoso Deus Horus, para formar uma expressiva resistência.
Sinais do Futuro
Producer
Para festejar o aniversário de uma escola, é organizada uma cerimónia em que é aberta uma cápsula do tempo que contém mensagens escritas por crianças 50 anos antes. Uma delas é um estranho mapa numérico. Quando o mapa é descodificado, descobrem que cada sequência corresponde à data e ao número de vítimas mortais de várias catástrofes e acidentes ao longo dos últimos anos. Com algumas dessas profecias ainda por acontecer, começa então uma corrida contra o tempo.
Sinais do Futuro
Director
Para festejar o aniversário de uma escola, é organizada uma cerimónia em que é aberta uma cápsula do tempo que contém mensagens escritas por crianças 50 anos antes. Uma delas é um estranho mapa numérico. Quando o mapa é descodificado, descobrem que cada sequência corresponde à data e ao número de vítimas mortais de várias catástrofes e acidentes ao longo dos últimos anos. Com algumas dessas profecias ainda por acontecer, começa então uma corrida contra o tempo.
Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey
Director
Documentary covering Tovey's life and career up to his untimely death in 2002. It includes rare and unreleased tracks and live footage of legendary performances, as well as classic songs recorded both under his own name and his alter ego, Fad Gadget. Put together by Frank's family in conjunction with Mute, utilising the Mute and family archives, this collection features the very first Fad Gadget demos and footage of the reborn Fad Gadget supporting Depeche Mode in 2001.
Book of Dreams: Dream 1 - Frank's Dream
Writer
Alex Proyas' classic hilarious B-grade spoof FRANK'S DREAM. Made sometime around 2002, and not completed until 2005
Book of Dreams: Dream 1 - Frank's Dream
Director
Alex Proyas' classic hilarious B-grade spoof FRANK'S DREAM. Made sometime around 2002, and not completed until 2005
Eu, Robot
Director
No ano 2035, os robots estão programados para viverem em harmonia com os humanos e fazerem parte do seu dia a dia. Quando um brilhante cientistca da U. S. Robotics Corporation aparece morto, o detective de Chicago, Del Spooner (Will Smith) é chamado para a investigação do crime. Auxiliado por uma psicóloga de robots, a Dra. Susan Calvin (Bridget Moynahan), o detective Spooner descobre que o principal suspeito do caso poderá ser um robot. Mas quando Spooner se aproxima da verdade, ele vê-se apanhado numa corrida pela própria vida. Com o tempo a escassear, uma ainda maior ameaça, que desafiará toda a existência humana começa a emergir.
Riverworld
Executive Producer
A movie for the Sci Fi Channel based on the book series by Philip José Farmer. The location is Riverworld, a mysterious and treacherous land where every human who died between the years 99,000 BC and 2,200 AD has been resurrected on the banks of a huge river.
Dias de Ensaio
Producer
Uma banda de garagem australiana tenta alcançar a fama enquanto seus membros lidam com assuntos interpessoais que ameaçam a unidade do grupo.
Dias de Ensaio
Writer
Uma banda de garagem australiana tenta alcançar a fama enquanto seus membros lidam com assuntos interpessoais que ameaçam a unidade do grupo.
Dias de Ensaio
Director
Uma banda de garagem australiana tenta alcançar a fama enquanto seus membros lidam com assuntos interpessoais que ameaçam a unidade do grupo.
Cidade das Sombras
Story
Um homem luta com as lembranças de seu passado, que incluem uma esposa da qual não se lembra e um mundo de pesadelo sem um sol.
Cidade das Sombras
Producer
Um homem luta com as lembranças de seu passado, que incluem uma esposa da qual não se lembra e um mundo de pesadelo sem um sol.
Cidade das Sombras
Screenplay
Um homem luta com as lembranças de seu passado, que incluem uma esposa da qual não se lembra e um mundo de pesadelo sem um sol.
Cidade das Sombras
Director
Um homem luta com as lembranças de seu passado, que incluem uma esposa da qual não se lembra e um mundo de pesadelo sem um sol.
Book of Dreams: Dream 7 - Ruben's Dream
Writer
A stressed-out Kafkian man called Ruben retells an embarrassing dream he had. In it, his overbearing mother takes him, naked and embarrassed, to a noirish department store to buy him clothes, a penis and a wife. He looks for a way out.
Book of Dreams: Dream 7 - Ruben's Dream
Director
A stressed-out Kafkian man called Ruben retells an embarrassing dream he had. In it, his overbearing mother takes him, naked and embarrassed, to a noirish department store to buy him clothes, a penis and a wife. He looks for a way out.
O Corvo
Director
O roqueiro Eric Draven está morto... Mas, estranhamente, ele ainda vive. Ele ainda não pode descansar em paz. Não enquanto os vermes responsáveis por sua morte e também pelo assassinato de sua noiva permanecerem vivos. Assim, Draven retorna de seu túmulo para submeter seus matadores à uma implacável vingança. E ele não está sozinho. Um amedrontador corvo do outro mundo guia Draven em sua jornada.
O Corvo
Producer
O roqueiro Eric Draven está morto... Mas, estranhamente, ele ainda vive. Ele ainda não pode descansar em paz. Não enquanto os vermes responsáveis por sua morte e também pelo assassinato de sua noiva permanecerem vivos. Assim, Draven retorna de seu túmulo para submeter seus matadores à uma implacável vingança. E ele não está sozinho. Um amedrontador corvo do outro mundo guia Draven em sua jornada.
Book of Dreams: Welcome To Crateland
Director of Photography
Mona relates her dream. Crawling through an apparently endless wooden crate, she encounters diverse characters while the crate itself is moving towards a fiery destruction.
Book of Dreams: Welcome To Crateland
Writer
Mona relates her dream. Crawling through an apparently endless wooden crate, she encounters diverse characters while the crate itself is moving towards a fiery destruction.
Book of Dreams: Welcome To Crateland
Director
Mona relates her dream. Crawling through an apparently endless wooden crate, she encounters diverse characters while the crate itself is moving towards a fiery destruction.
Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds
Producer
A religious brother and sister endure alone together in the post-apocalyptic Outback, until the sudden arrival of a stranger who helps them build a crude plane to fly out of the desert.
Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds
Writer
A religious brother and sister endure alone together in the post-apocalyptic Outback, until the sudden arrival of a stranger who helps them build a crude plane to fly out of the desert.
Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds
Director
A religious brother and sister endure alone together in the post-apocalyptic Outback, until the sudden arrival of a stranger who helps them build a crude plane to fly out of the desert.
After Hours
Music
The difficulty of separating sexual fantasy and reality becomes apparent in an investigation of an alleged sexual harassment case.
Passionless Moments
Director of Photography
A series of the awkward trials of everyday living.
Strange Residues
Lighting Artist
Dreams. What are they? Is it possible they can be used by strange beings from another planet to manipulate man? This man is dreaming. Could it be that at this very moment his dreams are being structured by a beam from outer space?
Strange Residues
Editor
Dreams. What are they? Is it possible they can be used by strange beings from another planet to manipulate man? This man is dreaming. Could it be that at this very moment his dreams are being structured by a beam from outer space?
Strange Residues
Writer
Dreams. What are they? Is it possible they can be used by strange beings from another planet to manipulate man? This man is dreaming. Could it be that at this very moment his dreams are being structured by a beam from outer space?
Strange Residues
Director
Dreams. What are they? Is it possible they can be used by strange beings from another planet to manipulate man? This man is dreaming. Could it be that at this very moment his dreams are being structured by a beam from outer space?
Groping
Director
This short student film by Alex Proyas and Salik Silverstein re-envisions the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder, offering a different explanation for the problem of witness nonintervention.
Sister Darkness
Writer
The 1930s, U.K.-set story follows the newly wed, but unhappy, Alice who stumbles across her doppelganger Isla. Her existence is a mystery seeped in a tale of bloody retribution against her oppressors, a hellish supernatural nightscape and an uprising against the deceitful aristocracy.
Sister Darkness
Director
The 1930s, U.K.-set story follows the newly wed, but unhappy, Alice who stumbles across her doppelganger Isla. Her existence is a mystery seeped in a tale of bloody retribution against her oppressors, a hellish supernatural nightscape and an uprising against the deceitful aristocracy.
Neon
Director
Fad Gadget - Ricky's Head