Gregory Dark

Gregory Dark es un director de cine, productor de cine, director de videos musicales y guionista estadounidense. ^{[ 3 ]} Dark es un cineasta para adultos que hizo la transición a la dirección de películas de Hollywood. ^{[ 4 ]}

Dark comenzó su carrera como artista plástico, dedicándose tanto a la pintura como al arte conceptual y las instalaciones . Tras graduarse con una maestría en Bellas Artes por la Universidad de Stanford , se trasladó a la ciudad de Nueva York para realizar estudios de posgrado en cine en la Universidad de Nueva York . ^{[ 5 ]}

Desde mediados de los años 80 hasta mediados de los 90, Dark dirigió películas pornográficas explícitas y para mayores de 18 años . Su trabajo de este período contribuyó a la creación del género actual de " pornografía alternativa " y a la invención del género de romance negro dentro del thriller erótico . Sight & Sound , la revista del British Film Institute , consideró los thrillers eróticos de Dark como obras pioneras del género. En los años 80, Dark, junto con Richard Lerner y Wendy Apple, dirigió y produjo Fallen Angels , el documental fundamental sobre los inicios de la industria pornográfica en Los Ángeles.

Dark dirigió o produjo más de 30 películas de acción y thrillers eróticos como jefe de producción de Axis Films, una compañía de películas de serie B , desde 1987 hasta 1995. Entre los thrillers eróticos de Dark de principios de la década de 1990 se encuentran Animal Instincts y su secuela Animal Instincts II , Body of Influence y Mirror Images 2 , que presentaban a Shannon Whirry en diversas etapas de desnudez. En 1994, dirigió la película Stranger by Night, protagonizada por Steven Bauer .

Las películas de Dark de este período le valieron elogios como "el Steven Spielberg del cine erótico suave" y "el Martin Scorsese del thriller erótico". ^{[ 6 ]}

In 1996, Dark directed the music video for "Bar-X-The Rocking M" by the Melvins.^[1][7] In 1998, he directed the video for "Zoot Suit Riot" by Cherry Poppin' Daddies, which won the Daddies a nomination for "Best New Artist in a Video" at the 1998 MTV Video Music Awards.^[8][1] That same year, he directed "Fuck Dying" and "Pushin' Weight" for Ice Cube.^[1][9] Dark's 1998 video "What U See Is What U Get" for Xzibit remained at the top of the Charts on BET for almost a year and won a Source Award.^[10] In 1999, he directed the video for "From the Bottom of My Broken Heart" by Britney Spears.^[11] In 2000, Vitamin C's "Graduation (Friends Forever)" and Linkin Park's "One Step Closer" video, were shot in Los Angeles, sixty-three feet underground in an abandoned subway tunnel.^[12] In 2002, he directed the video for the A*Teens cover of "Can't Help Falling in Love" for the Disney feature Lilo & Stitch.^[13]

Dark directed the music video for "Undercover Funk" by Snoop Dogg featuring Bootsy Collins for the film Undercover Brother. The video featured acting performances by the film's stars Eddie Griffin, who morphs into Snoop Dogg at the beginning of the video, and dancing and lip-synching performances by Neil Patrick Harris and Denise Richards.

Dark's first major motion picture, the horror filmSee No Evil, was released nationwide on May 19, 2006, for WWE Films and Lions Gate Entertainment. It was directed by Dark, written by Dan Madigan, produced by Joel Simon, and starred professional wrestlerKane. See No Evil grossed almost $19 million worldwide theatrical with a budget of $8 million^[14] The film grossed over $45 million on DVD sales and rentals.^[15]

In 2008, Dark directed the independent filmLittle Fish, Strange Pond, which was seen at a number of film festivals. The film starred Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Callum Blue, Zach Galifianakis, Liza Weil, and Paul Adelstein and was retitled Frenemy for its December 2010 Lions Gate Entertainment DVD release. During 2009, Dark directed An Evening With Stephen Lynch, a concert film starring comedian and musician Stephen Lynch.

As director – Film

• Mirror Images (1992) (as A. Gregory Hippolyte)
• Secret Games (1992) (as Gregory Hippolyte)
• Night Rhythms (1992) (as A. Gregory Hippolyte)
• Animal Instincts (1992) (as A. Gregory Hippolyte)
• Body of Influence (1993) (as Gregory Hippolyte)
• Sins of the Night (1993) (as Gregory Hippolyte)
• Secret Games 2: The Escort (1993) (as Gregory Hippolyte)
• Mirror Images 2 (1993)
• Object of Obsession (1994) (as Gregory H. Brown)
• Animal Instincts 2 (1994) (as Gregory Hippolyte)
• Secret Games 3 (1994) (as Gregory Hippolyte)
• Stranger by Night (1994) (as Gregory H. Brown)
• Animal Instincts 3 (1996) (as Gregory Hippolyte)
• See No Evil (2006)
• Little Fish, Strange Pond (2009)

• 1996 XRCO Awards – Best Director^[16]
• 1996 XRCO Hall of Fame inductee^[16]

• Petkovich, Anthony (1997). "Gregory Hippolyte aka Brown/Dark". Psychotronic Video. No. 26. p. 75.

• Gregory Dark at IMDb
• Gregory Dark at the Music Video Database