Biography
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.
Filmography
all 37
Movies 37
Director 31
Producer 4
Morning Has Broken (2020)
La La La (2020)
Island (2020)
Of the Wind (2020)
The Projected Rays (2020)
The Core of the Wood (2020)
A Lysergic Lullaby (2020)
Fallen (2020)
Unbalanced Redux (2019)
Digital Ghost Train (2019)
Looking Glass (2019)
Penumbra (2019)
Beneath the Path and Beyond (2019)
Phantom Mary (2019)
These Days (2019)
Epsilon (2019)
Poem for Calvin (2019)
So We Dance (2018)
A Round Reminiscence (2018)
One Minute Landscape(s) (2018)
To the Sea (2018)
Sedation (2018)
Regarding the Case of Joan of Arc (2018)
Glacier (2018)
Turnpike (2018)
Carrot Boy (2018)
Watchtower (2018)
Countenances in the Concrete (2018)
Cloudburst (2018)
A Florida Melancholy (2018)
A Fold in Space (2018)
Stalk (2015)
Dr. Grapefruit (2014)
Reflections (2013)
Nobody
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GenderMale
Birthday1993-11-05
Deathday2020-05-25 (26 years old)
Birth PlaceMilwaukee, United States
Also Known AsHayes Eli, Eli Grier Hayes
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