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 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. Since then he has worked on short films and music videos including notably The Eel, distributed by onedotzero and screened internationally, ISIS 'Holy Tears' music video, and Mogwai’s ‘Batcat’.


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.

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.


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
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.

He is currently at work on a feature film called “The Man Everyone Hated” produced by Charles Mather and Sunita Parmar.