Private Project

Mercury Vapor

An experimental feature consisting of hundreds of non-concrete dream images and obscured reflections, binding to form a structurally-induced hallucinatory experience.

  • Eli Hayes
    Director
    Nobody, Vanished, Hide and Go Seek, Reflections, Pixels, Stalk, Dr. Grapefruit, Here Even So, Waves, He Takes the Pills, The Duffle, One of Many Places in Which Something Was Stolen, Goose Radio, Power Line, Son and Moon, The Void, Voice Male, A Dream is a Life Lived and Lost, A Subconscious Stream, The Sleeping Sky, Ciliary Currents, Iridescent
  • Eli Hayes
    Producer
    Nobody, Vanished, Hide and Go Seek, Reflections, Pixels, Stalk, Dr. Grapefruit, Here Even So, Waves, He Takes the Pills, The Duffle, One of Many Places in Which Something Was Stolen, Goose Radio, Power Line, Son and Moon, The Void, Voice Male, A Dream is a Life Lived and Lost, A Subconscious Stream, The Sleeping Sky, Ciliary Currents, Iridescent
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Feature, Student, Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    Experimental, Non-Narrative, Avant-garde, Structuralist, Formalist
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 52 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    April 14, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    3,500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes
Director Biography - Eli Hayes

Eli Grier Hayes was born on November 5th, 1993 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He fell in love with cinema at a relatively 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, he founded Hazel Eye Productions. Eli has since directed & produced almost twenty feature films, and approximately forty short films; his work has been screened at over sixty festivals across six continents, including The Beijing International Short Film Festival, Hell's Half Mile Film & Music Festival, The Cannes International Film Festival’s Court Métrage, The Princeton Film Festival, The Phoenix Film Festival Melbourne, and The Milwaukee Short Film Festival. He recently graduated from Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee with a master's degree in film & creative media, and currently works as the Project Manager at The Nashville Film Institute.

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