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Eli Hayes (1993-2020)

Alias:
Eli Grier Hayes
Hayes Eli

Birthplace:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Born:
November 5, 1993

Died:
May 23, 2020

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Cinematography:
2013  Reflections
2014  Dr. Grapefruit
2019  Beneath the Path and Beyond
2019  Unbalanced Redux

Color Grading:
2013  Reflections
2014  Dr. Grapefruit
2019  Beneath the Path and Beyond
2019  Unbalanced Redux
2020  The Core of the Wood

Director:
2013  Reflections
2014  Dr. Grapefruit
2015  Stalk
2018  A Florida Melancholy
2018  A Fold in Space
2018  A Round Reminiscence
2018  Carrot Boy
2018  Cloudburst
2018  Countenances in the Concrete
2018  Glacier
2018  One Minute Landscape(s)
2018  Sedation
2018  So We Dance
2018  To the Sea
2018  Turnpike
2018  Watchtower
2019  Beneath the Path and Beyond
2019  Digital Ghost Train
2019  Epsilon
2019  Looking Glass
2019  Penumbra
2019  Poem for Calvin
2019  The Life That Follows Redux
2019  Unbalanced Redux
2020  A Lysergic Lullaby
2020  Fallen
2020  Island
2020  La La La
2020  Of the Wind
2020  The Core of the Wood
2020  The Projected Rays
2022  The Invisible Landscape
????  Nobody

Director of Photography:
2013  Reflections
2014  Dr. Grapefruit
2015  Stalk
2018  A Florida Melancholy
2018  A Fold in Space
2018  A Round Reminiscence
2018  Carrot Boy
2018  Cloudburst
2018  Countenances in the Concrete
2018  Glacier
2018  One Minute Landscape(s)
2018  Sedation
2018  So We Dance
2018  To the Sea
2018  Turnpike
2018  Watchtower
2019  Beneath the Path and Beyond
2019  Digital Ghost Train
2019  Epsilon
2019  Looking Glass
2019  Penumbra
2019  Poem for Calvin
2019  The Life That Follows Redux
2019  Unbalanced Redux
2020  A Lysergic Lullaby
2020  Fallen
2020  Island
2020  La La La
2020  Of the Wind
2020  The Core of the Wood
2020  The Projected Rays
2022  The Invisible Landscape
????  Nobody

Editor:
2013  Reflections
2014  Dr. Grapefruit
2015  Stalk
2018  A Florida Melancholy
2018  A Fold in Space
2018  A Round Reminiscence
2018  Carrot Boy
2018  Cloudburst
2018  Countenances in the Concrete
2018  Glacier
2018  One Minute Landscape(s)
2018  Sedation
2018  So We Dance
2018  To the Sea
2018  Turnpike
2018  Watchtower
2019  Beneath the Path and Beyond
2019  Digital Ghost Train
2019  Epsilon
2019  Looking Glass
2019  Penumbra
2019  Poem for Calvin
2019  The Life That Follows Redux
2019  Unbalanced Redux
2020  A Lysergic Lullaby
2020  Fallen
2020  Island
2020  La La La
2020  Of the Wind
2020  The Core of the Wood
2020  The Projected Rays
2022  The Invisible Landscape
????  Nobody

Executive Producer:
2013  Reflections
2014  Dr. Grapefruit
2015  Stalk
2018  A Florida Melancholy
2018  A Fold in Space
2018  A Round Reminiscence
2018  Carrot Boy
2018  Cloudburst
2018  Countenances in the Concrete
2018  Glacier
2018  One Minute Landscape(s)
2018  Regarding the Case of Joan of Arc
2018  Sedation
2018  So We Dance
2018  To the Sea
2018  Turnpike
2018  Watchtower
2019  Beneath the Path and Beyond
2019  Digital Ghost Train
2019  Epsilon
2019  Looking Glass
2019  Penumbra
2019  Poem for Calvin
2019  The Life That Follows Redux
2019  Unbalanced Redux
2020  A Lysergic Lullaby
2020  Fallen
2020  Island
2020  La La La
2020  Morning Has Broken
2020  Of the Wind
2020  The Core of the Wood
2020  The Projected Rays
2022  The Invisible Landscape
????  Nobody

Music:
2013  Reflections
2014  Dr. Grapefruit
2015  Stalk
2018  A Florida Melancholy
2018  A Fold in Space
2018  A Round Reminiscence
2018  Carrot Boy
2018  Cloudburst
2018  Countenances in the Concrete
2018  Glacier
2018  One Minute Landscape(s)
2018  Regarding the Case of Joan of Arc
2018  Sedation
2018  So We Dance
2018  To the Sea
2018  Turnpike
2018  Watchtower
2019  Beneath the Path and Beyond
2019  Digital Ghost Train
2019  Epsilon
2019  Looking Glass
2019  Penumbra
2019  Poem for Calvin
2019  The Life That Follows Redux
2019  Unbalanced Redux
2020  A Lysergic Lullaby
2020  Fallen
2020  Island
2020  La La La
2020  Morning Has Broken
2020  Of the Wind
2020  The Core of the Wood
2020  The Projected Rays
2022  The Invisible Landscape
????  Nobody

Producer:
2013  Reflections
2014  Dr. Grapefruit
2015  Stalk
2018  A Florida Melancholy
2018  A Fold in Space
2018  A Round Reminiscence
2018  Carrot Boy
2018  Cloudburst
2018  Countenances in the Concrete
2018  Glacier
2018  One Minute Landscape(s)
2018  Regarding the Case of Joan of Arc
2018  Sedation
2018  So We Dance
2018  To the Sea
2018  Turnpike
2018  Watchtower
2019  Beneath the Path and Beyond
2019  Digital Ghost Train
2019  Epsilon
2019  Looking Glass
2019  Penumbra
2019  Poem for Calvin
2019  The Life That Follows Redux
2019  These Days
2019  Unbalanced Redux
2020  A Lysergic Lullaby
2020  Fallen
2020  Island
2020  La La La
2020  Morning Has Broken
2020  Of the Wind
2020  The Core of the Wood
2020  The Projected Rays
2022  The Invisible Landscape
????  Nobody

Sound Mixer:
2013  Reflections
2014  Dr. Grapefruit
2015  Stalk
2018  A Florida Melancholy
2018  A Fold in Space
2018  A Round Reminiscence
2018  Carrot Boy
2018  Cloudburst
2018  Countenances in the Concrete
2018  Glacier
2018  One Minute Landscape(s)
2018  Regarding the Case of Joan of Arc
2018  Sedation
2018  So We Dance
2018  To the Sea
2018  Turnpike
2018  Watchtower
2019  Beneath the Path and Beyond
2019  Digital Ghost Train
2019  Epsilon
2019  Looking Glass
2019  Penumbra
2019  Poem for Calvin
2019  The Life That Follows Redux
2019  These Days
2019  Unbalanced Redux
2020  A Lysergic Lullaby
2020  Fallen
2020  Island
2020  La La La
2020  Morning Has Broken
2020  Of the Wind
2020  The Core of the Wood
2020  The Projected Rays
2022  The Invisible Landscape
????  Nobody

Thanks:
2013  Reflections
2014  Dr. Grapefruit
2015  Stalk
2018  A Florida Melancholy
2018  A Fold in Space
2018  A Round Reminiscence
2018  Carrot Boy
2018  Cloudburst
2018  Countenances in the Concrete
2018  Glacier
2018  One Minute Landscape(s)
2018  Regarding the Case of Joan of Arc
2018  Sedation
2018  So We Dance
2018  To the Sea
2018  Turnpike
2018  Watchtower
2019  Beneath the Path and Beyond
2019  Digital Ghost Train
2019  Epsilon
2019  Looking Glass
2019  Penumbra
2019  Phantom Mary
2019  Poem for Calvin
2019  The Life That Follows Redux
2019  These Days
2019  Unbalanced Redux
2020  A Lysergic Lullaby
2020  Fallen
2020  Island
2020  La La La
2020  Morning Has Broken
2020  Of the Wind
2020  The Core of the Wood
2020  The Projected Rays
2022  The Invisible Landscape
????  Nobody

Writer:
2013  Reflections
2014  Dr. Grapefruit
2015  Stalk
2018  A Florida Melancholy
2018  A Fold in Space
2018  A Round Reminiscence
2018  Carrot Boy
2018  Cloudburst
2018  Countenances in the Concrete
2018  Glacier
2018  One Minute Landscape(s)
2018  Regarding the Case of Joan of Arc
2018  Sedation
2018  So We Dance
2018  To the Sea
2018  Turnpike
2018  Watchtower
2019  Beneath the Path and Beyond
2019  Digital Ghost Train
2019  Epsilon
2019  Looking Glass
2019  Penumbra
2019  Phantom Mary
2019  Poem for Calvin
2019  The Life That Follows Redux
2019  These Days
2019  Unbalanced Redux
2020  A Lysergic Lullaby
2020  Fallen
2020  Island
2020  La La La
2020  Morning Has Broken
2020  Of the Wind
2020  The Core of the Wood
2020  The Projected Rays
2022  The Invisible Landscape
????  Nobody

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