A Mind of Ice
A work of docufiction shot in 16mm on a turret Bolex, exploring the vast, wintery woodlands of upstate New York -- as well as a mysterious, masked figure inhabiting the environment -- through a fusion of landscape filmmaking and experimental horror.
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Eli HayesDirectorNobody, Vanished, Hide and Go Seek, Reflections, Stalk, Capture, Intersection, Pixels, Eye Contact, Here Even So, Dr. Grapefruit, Backtrack, He Takes the Pills, Waves, One of Many Places in Which Something Was Stolen, Goose Radio, Power Line, The Multiples Trilogy, Frontal Lobe, Son and Moon, The Void, Ascension, Dream Number, Voice Male
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Eli HayesWriterNobody, Vanished, Hide and Go Seek, Reflections, Stalk, Capture, Intersection, Pixels, Eye Contact, Here Even So, Dr. Grapefruit, Backtrack, He Takes the Pills, Waves, One of Many Places in Which Something Was Stolen, Goose Radio, Power Line, The Multiples Trilogy, Frontal Lobe, Son and Moon, The Void, Ascension, Dream Number, Voice Male
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Eli HayesProducerNobody, Vanished, Hide and Go Seek, Reflections, Stalk, Capture, Intersection, Pixels, Eye Contact, Here Even So, Dr. Grapefruit, Backtrack, He Takes the Pills, Waves, One of Many Places in Which Something Was Stolen, Goose Radio, Power Line, The Multiples Trilogy, Frontal Lobe, Son and Moon, The Void, Ascension, Dream Number, Voice Male
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Susie BrancaccioKey CastVanished, Hide and Go Seek, Sisters, Transported, One of Many Places in Which Something Was Stolen, Matryoshka, Frontal Lobe, Dream Number, Dream Letter
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Abigail ParkerKey CastOne of Many Places in Which Something Was Stolen
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Project Type:Documentary, Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media, Other
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Genres:experimental, landscape, documentary, horror, thriller, mystery, fantasy, docufiction, fiction, anthology, 16mm, short film
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Runtime:24 minutes 30 seconds
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Completion Date:February 10, 2017
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Production Budget:11,000 USD
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Country of Origin:United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:16mm
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Aspect Ratio:4:3
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Film Color:Black & White
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:Yes
Eli Grier Hayes was born on November 5th, 1993 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He fell in love with cinema at an early age upon viewing the works of directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky and Chantal Akerman. Eli began screenwriting as he entered high school, and directed his first short films, "Dancing with Shadows" 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 feature films, and approximately forty 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 Cannes International Film Festival's Court Métrage, 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. Eli recently relocated back to his home city of Milwaukee, where he is working on several different projects, both short form and feature length.