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).
Known For
Complete Filmography

Return to Dark City
2025
as Self
Documentary about Dark City featuring interviews with director Alex Proyas, producer Andrew Mason, production designers Patrick Tatopoulos and George ...

Dark Sister
2025
Director, Writer
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
2023
Executive Producer
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
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
A woman who has been given a box to deliver to a destination which doesn't exist

Mask of the Evil Apparition
2021
Director, Producer, Writer
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
2020
Director
A haunting short film made mostly during the lockdown, employing various remote collaboration techniques. The film explores the themes of memory, past...

Phobos
2019
Director, Screenplay
A young woman loses her car one evening, and then can't shake the feeling that something is following her home.

Gods of Egypt
2016
Director, Producer
A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.

Knowing
2009
Director, Producer
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
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
2005
Director, Writer
Alex Proyas' classic hilarious B-grade spoof FRANK'S DREAM. Made sometime around 2002, and not completed until 2005

I, Robot
2004
Director
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
2003
Executive Producer
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
2002
Director
A live-action promotional short for the video game "Metroid Prime".

Garage Days
2002
Director, Writer, Story
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
2000
Director
An ad for an advertising company, consisting of 7-second sequence shots by 13 directors.

Dark City
1998
Story, Director, Screenplay
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
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
1995
Writer, Director
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
1994
Director, Producer
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
1994
Director of Photography, Director, Writer
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
1988
Director, Producer, Writer
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
1985
Music
The difficulty of separating sexual fantasy and reality becomes apparent in an investigation of an alleged sexual harassment case.

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
1983
Director of Photography
A series of the awkward trials of everyday living.

Strange Residues
1981
Director, Lighting Artist, Writer
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
1980
Director, Director of Photography
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
Fad Gadget - Ricky's Head
Sister Darkness
N/A
Director, Writer
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
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
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
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
Is A.I. a new art form?
Is this the Age of the Creative Machine?
N/A
Director
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
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
Alex Proyas conjures more A.I. madness.
R.U.R.
N/A
Screenplay, Director, Producer
A young woman visits the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots to emancipate the robots from capitalist exploitation, with catastrophic results.