Alex Proyas

Alex Proyas

1963-09-23 Alexandria, Egypt 38 Credits

Biography

Alexander "Alex" Proyas (born 23 September 1963) is an Australian filmmaker. He is best known for directing the films The Crow (1994), Dark City (1998), I, Robot (2004), Knowing (2009), and Gods of Egypt (2016).

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Return to Dark City

Return to Dark City

2025

as Self

Acting

Documentary about Dark City featuring interviews with director Alex Proyas, producer Andrew Mason, production designers Patrick Tatopoulos and George ...

Dark Sister

Dark Sister

2025

Director, Writer

9.0
Directing Writing

A gothic horror short about a woman on a remote estate who discovers a doppleganger with sinister intentions for her. A virtual studio production from...

Home Education

Home Education

2023

Executive Producer

5.7
Producing

A home-schooled girl begins to question her domineering mother's teachings when their beliefs face the ultimate test.

Are These the Dying Days of Human Art?

2022

Director

Directing

Artificial Intelligence imagery is coming of age. In this short video director Alex Proyas "tricks" the AI mid journey into producing crude animation ...

BOX

2022

Director, Editor, Writer

10.0
Directing Writing

A woman who has been given a box to deliver to a destination which doesn't exist

Mask of the Evil Apparition

Mask of the Evil Apparition

2021

Director, Producer, Writer

4.0
Directing Producing Writing

A young woman lost in a nocturnal, dreamlike city, with her twin psychic brothers who try to help her find her way home as she is pursued by a shadowy...

Strange Nostalgia

Strange Nostalgia

2020

Director

Directing

A haunting short film made mostly during the lockdown, employing various remote collaboration techniques. The film explores the themes of memory, past...

Phobos

Phobos

2019

Director, Screenplay

6.7
Directing Writing

A young woman loses her car one evening, and then can't shake the feeling that something is following her home.

Gods of Egypt

Gods of Egypt

2016

Director, Producer

5.7
Directing Producing

A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.

Knowing

Knowing

2009

Director, Producer

6.2
Directing Producing

A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occu...

Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey

2006

Director

6.5
Directing

Documentary covering Tovey's life and career up to his untimely death in 2002. It includes rare and unreleased tracks and live footage of legendary pe...

Book of Dreams: Dream 1 - Frank's Dream

Book of Dreams: Dream 1 - Frank's Dream

2005

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

Alex Proyas' classic hilarious B-grade spoof FRANK'S DREAM. Made sometime around 2002, and not completed until 2005

I, Robot

I, Robot

2004

Director

7.0
Directing

In 2035, where robots are commonplace and abide by the three laws of robotics, a technophobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a ...

Riverworld

Riverworld

2003

Executive Producer

4.5
Producing

A movie for the Sci Fi Channel based on the book series by Philip José Farmer. The location is Riverworld, a mysterious and treacherous land where eve...

Prime Evil

Prime Evil

2002

Director

Directing

A live-action promotional short for the video game "Metroid Prime".

Garage Days

Garage Days

2002

Director, Writer, Story

5.3
Directing Writing Producing

The story of a young Sydney band trying to get a foothold in the competitive world of rock n' roll. After the band's first gig is a colossal failure, ...

One Morning All Over the World

One Morning All Over the World

2000

Director

4.7
Directing

An ad for an advertising company, consisting of 7-second sequence shots by 13 directors.

Dark City

Dark City

1998

Story, Director, Screenplay

7.3
Writing Directing Producing

A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic ...

Conspiracy

1997

Executive Producer

Producing

The pilot film for a proposed investigative documentary series lifting the lid on some of the world's most notorious conspiracy theories.

Book of Dreams: Dream 7 - Ruben's Dream

Book of Dreams: Dream 7 - Ruben's Dream

1995

Writer, Director

1.0
Writing Directing

A stressed-out Kafkian man called Ruben retells an embarrassing dream he had. In it, his overbearing mother takes him, naked and embarrassed, to a noi...

The Crow

The Crow

1994

Director, Producer

7.5
Directing Producing

Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven, watched over by a...

Book of Dreams: Welcome to Crateland

Book of Dreams: Welcome to Crateland

1994

Director of Photography, Director, Writer

3.0
Directing Writing

Mona relates her dream. Crawling through an apparently endless wooden crate, she encounters diverse characters while the crate itself is moving toward...

Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds

Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds

1988

Director, Producer, Writer

5.8
Directing Producing Writing

A religious brother and sister endure alone together in the post-apocalyptic Outback, until the sudden arrival of a stranger who helps them build a cr...

After Hours

After Hours

1985

Music

5.8

The difficulty of separating sexual fantasy and reality becomes apparent in an investigation of an alleged sexual harassment case.

Getting Wet

Getting Wet

1984

Music

Fifteen year old Alex and his older brother, Michael, both like the same girl, who has worked in their family pub for years. When she accompanies the ...

Passionless Moments

Passionless Moments

1983

Director of Photography

6.1
Directing

A series of the awkward trials of everyday living.

Strange Residues

Strange Residues

1981

Director, Lighting Artist, Writer

3.0
Directing Writing

Dreams. What are they? Is it possible they can be used by strange beings from another planet to manipulate man? This man is dreaming. Could it be that...

Groping

Groping

1980

Director, Director of Photography

5.3
Directing

This short student film by Alex Proyas and Salik Silverstein re-envisions the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder, offering a different explanation for the pro...

Neon

1980

Director

Directing

Fad Gadget - Ricky's Head

Sister Darkness

N/A

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

The 1930s, U.K.-set story follows the newly wed, but unhappy, Alice who stumbles across her doppelganger Isla. Her existence is a mystery seeped in a ...

The Unfolding Nightmare

N/A

Director

Directing

A.I. image generators are doing for video what the synthesiser & sequencer did for music. Like it or not, this is the future.

Francis Bacon's Hotel

N/A

Director

Directing

A.I. image generators open the doors of perception. Play with this stuff long enough you won't know what's real anymore.

Postcards From a Parallel Universe?

N/A

Director

Directing

AI image generators are like we've taken a deep dive into the subconscious... or we've slipped into another level of reality.

The Unfolding Nightmare Part 2

N/A

Director

Directing

Is A.I. a new art form?

Is this the Age of the Creative Machine?

N/A

Director

Directing

Tricking Midjourney to produce animation. Director Alex Proyas uses AI with controlled human guidance or "curation"... in an attempt to find a place f...

Are the Elder Gods Awakening?

N/A

Director

Directing

Artificial Intelligence has opened a portal into the collective unconscious. Artists will dive into those depths and plunder them for new found inspir...

We Can Rebuild Him!

N/A

Director

Directing

Alex Proyas conjures more A.I. madness.

R.U.R.

N/A

Screenplay, Director, Producer

Writing Directing Producing

A young woman visits the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots to emancipate the robots from capitalist exploitation, with catastrophic results.