David Slade
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![]() Slade at the 2014San Diego Comic-Con | |
Born | David Aldrin Slade 26 September 1969 United Kingdom |
Occupation(s) | Actor, director |
Years active | 1994–present |
David Aldrin Slade(born 26 September 1969) is a British film and television director and actor. His works include the filmsHard Candy,30 Days of NightandThe Twilight Saga: Eclipse.Slade is also a director for television, directing episodes forBreaking Bad,Awake,Hannibal,Crossbones,Powers,American GodsandBlack Mirror.Before he was a film director, Slade was a director of commercials and music videos.
Life and career
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He started his career making amateur music videos for local bands in the south ofEngland.He had his films processed by an elderly woman who developed super 8 films for cheap in her bathtub. His first professional job was directing a commercial for the video gameSilent Hill,for the English market.[1]His first feature film,Hard Candy,was released in 2005 byLions Gate Entertainment,who purchased the independent movie at theSundance Film Festival.[2]He went on to direct the vampire film30 Days of Nightin 2007.[3]Slade directedThe Twilight Saga: Eclipse,[4]the third film in theTwilightfilm series.[5]
In aTwitterpost, Slade listed his favorite films asPerformance,Wings of Desire,2001: A Space Odyssey,A Clockwork Orange,andPossession.[6]Slade also attributesPerformanceas his main inspiration for becoming a film director.[7]
Filmography
[edit]Feature films
[edit]- Hard Candy(2005)
- 30 Days of Night(2007)
- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse(2010)
- Nightmare Cinema(2018) (segment:This Way to Egress)
- Black Mirror: Bandersnatch(2018)
- Dark Harvest(2023)
Music videos
[edit]- Scheer's "Wish You Were Dead"
- Beaumont Hannant's "Utuba"
- DJ Hooligan's "Rave Nation"
- Speedy J's "Symmetry" (animated video piece titled "Corpus Porpoise Posthumous Non Polhemus" )
- EMF's "Bleeding You Dry"
- Aphex Twin's "Donkey Rhubarb"
- Collapsed Lung's "Eat My Goal"
- LFO's "Tied Up"
- C. J. Bolland's "Sugar Is Sweeter"
- Babybird's "If You'll Be Mine"
- DJ Rap's "Good to Be Alive" (original UK version)
- 3 Colours Red's "Beautiful Day"
- Apollo 440's "Stop the Rock"
- Stone Temple Pilots' "Sour Girl"
- OPM's "Heaven Is a Halfpipe"
- Maxim's "Carmen Queasy"
- P.O.D.'s "School of Hard Knocks"
- Stereophonics' "Mr. Writer"
- Muse's "New Born"
- Muse's "Bliss"
- Muse's "Hyper Music"
- Muse's "Feeling Good"
- Tori Amos' "Strange Little Girl"
- David Gray's "This Year's Love"
- System of a Down's "Aerials"
- The Music's "Take the Long Road and Walk It"
- Rob Dougan's "Clubbed to Death"
- Starsailor's "Poor Misguided Fool"
- AFI's "Girl's Not Grey"
- Turin Brakes' "Pain Killer"
- The Killers' "Goodnight, Travel Well" for UNICEF in conjunction with MTV EXIT
Short films
[edit]- I Smell Quality(1994)
- Do Geese See God?(2004)
- MEATDOG: What's Fer Dinner(2008)[8]
Television series
[edit]- Breaking Bad
- Episode 4.03 – "Open House"
- Awake
- Episode 1.01 – "Pilot"
- Hannibal
- Episode 1.01 – "Apéritif"
- Episode 1.03 – "Potage"
- Episode 1.13 – "Savoureux"
- Episode 2.11 – "Kō No Mono"
- Episode 2.13 – "Mizumono"
- Crossbones
- Episode 1.01 – "The Devil's Dominion"
- Powers
- Episode 1.01 – "Pilot"
- Episode 1.02 – "Like a Power"
- American Gods
- Episode 1.01 – "The Bone Orchard"
- Episode 1.02 – "The Secret of Spoons"
- Episode 1.03 – "Head Full of Snow"
- Black Mirror
- Episode 4.05 – "Metalhead"
- Black Mirror: Bandersnatch(2018)
- Barkskins
- Episode 1.01 "New France"
- Episode 1.02 "The Turtle King"
References
[edit]- ^"David Slade - My First Shoot".Myfirstshoot.com.Retrieved1 November2017.
- ^"Press Conference: Interviews with the Cast & Crew of 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'".BloodyDisgusting. 14 June 2010.
- ^"Twilight Saga: Eclipse Gets a New Editor; Muse Dropped from Soundtrack".DreadCentral. 9 August 2012.
- ^"David Slade Talks Twilight Saga: Eclipse; New TV Spot" Something New "".DreadCentral. 10 June 2010.
- ^"David Slade to Direct Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse"(Press release).Summit Entertainment.22 April 2009.Retrieved22 April2009.
- ^DAVID A SLADE [@DAVID_A_SLADE] (5 March 2012)."ALL TIME top 5" PERFORMANCE "Roeg/Cammell." WINGS OF DESIRE "Wim Wenders." 2001/Clockwork Orange "Kubrick" POSSESSION "Zulawski No surprises"(Tweet) – viaTwitter.
- ^DAVID A SLADE [@DAVID_A_SLADE] (5 March 2012)."@AussieBecka Nic Roeg/Donald Cammell's" Performance ""(Tweet) – viaTwitter.
- ^"So Funny, It's Scary: Hollywood's Top Horror Directors to Bring Original Comedy Pilots to Xbox 360 This Fall".Microsoft.23 July 2008. Archived fromthe originalon 5 September 2008.Retrieved14 August2008.