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Richard Heslop (born 1961 in London) is a British director of
music video
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s and films. He has produced videos for artists including
Queen
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,
The Cure
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, and
New Order, as well as programmes on
Channel 4
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and the
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. He has also been credited as a cinematographer and camera operator.
Biography
In 1986 he made the film ''Procar'' (16 mm, black and white, 19 mins.) in collaboration with Daniel Landin and Herbert Verhey with his
Car Ensemble of the Netherlands (Nederlands Auto Ensemble) for live performances in Amsterdam during the Romantic Aesthetics Festival. For this project, a two-day
drive-in cinema
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was built in the centre of the city. The film was shown later that year at the
Berlin Film Festival and released as part of a compilation of British short films 1984-1987 called Fat of the Land which also included an early Tilda Swinton short ''The Sluggard'' by Joy Perino and work by Cerith Wyn Evens.
In the 80s he started to create
photo-montages that were exhibited in The London Gallery. He also continued his career as director of music videos, including clips for
New Order,
Happy Mondays
Happy Mondays are an English rock band formed in Salford in 1980. The original line-up was Shaun Ryder (vocals), his brother Paul Ryder (bass), Gary Whelan (drums), Paul Davis (keyboard), and Mark Day (guitar). Mark "Bez" Berry later joine ...
("Wrote for Luck" "24 Hour Party People" and "Hallelujah"),
Pop Will Eat Itself
Pop Will Eat Itself are an English alternative rock band formed in 1986 in Stourbridge in the West Midlands of England with members from Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country. Initially known as a grebo act, they changed style to incorp ...
and
The Mighty Lemon Drops
The Mighty Lemon Drops were an English rock group active from 1985 to 1992.
Biography
Originally called the Sherbet Monsters, the quartet first formed in the spring of 1985 in Wolverhampton, in the Black Country. Paul Marsh, Dave Newton and ...
. During the same period, he started Trigger Happy Films that would produce many videos including ''Unbelievable'' by
EMF.
In 1991 for Channel 4, Heslop wrote and directed ''Floating'', a 39 min film about a Docklands bus driver who, on the verge of a nervous breakdown, destroys his house to build an ark in his living room. This film was awarded Best Short Film in the Semaine de la Critique at the
Cannes Film Festival
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in 1992.
In 1996 Heslop was commissioned by the rock group
Queen
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Monarchy
* Queen regnant, a female monarch of a Kingdom
** List of queens regnant
* Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king
* Queen dowager, the widow of a king
* Queen mother, a queen dowager who is the mother ...
to direct a film for the track "
I Was Born to Love You" on the
''Made In Heaven'' compilation which was co-produced by the
British Film Institute
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and
Janine Marmot at Hot Property Films.
In 1997 Heslop directed commercials for Oil Factory Films which included the rebranding campaign of
Fox's Biscuits for St Lukes in 1997. He also did promos for
HSBC,
Kodak
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and X-AM jeans.
Starting in 2000, Heslop directed shows for the BBC and Channel 4, including the TV series ''The Residents'' an 8 x 30min black comedy and began shooting a 35mm feature film ''State of the Party'', a contemporary drama set in and about the dance culture scene, adapted from the book ''Disco Biscuits'' by Sarah Champion and Irvine Welsh. This project did not complete.
In 2010, after making a music video for
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip called "Get Better" Heslop set up I Like Films, Me Ltd with producers Ciska Faulkner and Philip Shotton to produce the feature film ''Frank'' which he both wrote and directed. The film was shot in the north of England and was completed in March 2012. It premiered at the
Cambridge Film Festival
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and was nominated for BIFA's Raindance Award in 2012.
In March 2014 Heslop showed his live multiple projections for 23 Skidoo as part of the BFI's This Is Now: Film and Video After Punk. It covered underground film from 1979 to 1985. It ended with 23 Skidoo playing live at the BFI Southbank as a tribute to Heslop's '7 Songs' experimental music Video.
In December 2014 Heslop directed ''Pour It On'', an 8-minute short film piece, serving also as a music video for
New Build
New Build is a British electronic music band based in London. The band consists of Hot Chip members Al Doyle, Felix Martin plus composer Tom Hopkins. Their first album ''Yesterday Was Lived and Lost'' was released in the UK on 5 March 2012 (an ...
. The film featured a performance of Second Skin by London performance artist Rachel Gomme. The film premiered in the
New York Times Style magazine
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in a review of the album "Pour It On" by Ilana Kaplan.
Richard Heslop's experimental 'The Raft of the Medusa' was completed for BBC Radio 4 and aired April 12, 2015. Medusa is a tribute to the late
Derek Jarman
Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) was an English artist, film maker, costume designer, stage designer, writer, gardener and gay rights activist.
Biography
Jarman was born at the Royal Victoria Nursing Home ...
.
See also
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Scratch Video
References
External links
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Aesthetica Magazine interview with Richard Heslop 2015
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Living people
British film directors
British television directors
British music video directors
1961 births
Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art