Dominic Hailstone
Dominic Hailstone | |
|---|---|
| Born | Dominic Hailstone Born 1973 |
| Known for | Director of short films, music videos, screenwriting. |
Dominic Hailstone (born London, 1973) is an English film director, screenwriter and digital artist, best known for achieving CGI like animation using practical effects as illustrated in his short film The Eel[1] and music video for Isis "Holy Tears".
Biography
Early Work
After leaving school at age 17, Hailstone worked for the special fx industry on films like Interview with the Vampire, Harry Potter and Chris Cunningham’s Come to Daddy music video. During this early period he also co-directed a 17 min short film with Barney Clay called Deadenhead (1990).
Film Work
Hailstone’s first solo film was Logboy Goes Walkies which won the Channel 4 / Tango Digitalent Award in 2001.[2] Since then he has worked on short films and music videos including notably The Eel, distributed by onedotzero and screened internationally,[3] ISIS 'Holy Tears' music video, and Mogwai’s ‘Batcat’.
In 2007 he was commissioned by Warp X to write and direct Say You Love Satan, co-written with Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Phil Nichol.
In 2019 he also produced a long form video for Tool titled 'Opiate' (currently unreleased) and has worked extensively on the visuals for their live concerts. He has a credit for "Visual Effects" on their latest album Fear Inoculum, which contains a new 10 minute video directed by Adam Jones.
He is currently associated with Brainfeeder Films in the US and has worked with director Eddie Alcazar on his feature film Perfect.
Video Art
In 2006 he produced the short ‘Belladonna’ with Musician Matthew Rozeik. The piece was commissioned by onedotzero and the Victoria and Albert Museum.[4]
During this period he also produced ’92’ a work commissioned by the Hayward Gallery to promote the exhibition “Undercover Surrealism” surrounding the work of Georges Bataille. The work features music by dark/ambient musician Lustmord.[5]
Art Work
Hailstone provided the cover artwork for Necro Deathmort’s first two albums “This Beat is Necrotronic” and “Music of Bleak Origin”.
Feature Film Work
Dominic has provided visual effects and design work for films such as Harry Potter, Alien Covenant, Possum, Overlord, Color out of Space and Morbius, based on the Marvel comic.
Filmography
- “Deadenhead” (1990) short film (co-directed with Barney Clay).
- “Logboy goes Walkies” (2001) short film
- “Cherrywood Eyes” (2001) video for Lorien
- “Crooked Hill” (2002) video for Sonic Torpedoes
- "Transmission” (2003) video for Violent Delight
- "The Eel” (2004) short film
- "Paularay” (2005) video
- “Belladonna” (2006) video for onedotzero.
- “’92” (2006) video
- “Holy Tears” (2007) video for Isis
- “Batcat” (2009) video for Mogwai
- “Flowers” (2011) video work for Lustmord.
References
- ^ The Eel on BBC Film Network
- ^ Con-Can Movie Festival Director's data Archived September 5, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ onedotzero blog on the Uppsala film festival in Sweden
- ^ Victoria and Albert Museum - Friday Late Commissions 2006-2007 Archived February 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Heyward Gallery's Undercover Surrealism minisite Archived May 16, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Dominic Hailstone at IMDb
- https://www.dominichailstone.com/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120516193824/http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/minisites/docs2/undercover/exhibition.html Heyward Gallery's Undercover Surrealism minisite
- http://www.myspace.com/necrodeathmort Necro Death Mort's MySpace page