Ron Hays
Visual Effects
Biography
Ron Hays was a programmer and visual effects artist who worked with Nam June Paik’s video Synthesizer to produce music videos and animations in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He died of AIDS in 1991.
Known For
A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.
Demon Seed
A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon recruited by the Emperor to complete the mission, as well as to rescue the Emperor's son, who has gone missing.
Starcrash
You are about to embark on a voyage of music and image, into the stellar atmosphere of inner space.
Odyssey
Deftly riding the membrane between bathos and transcendence, a beautiful video feedback and computer animation film by Ron Hays with an instant classic synth score by Ragnar Grippe.
Genesis
Abstract animation set to music
Digit
The guys in the 'I Phelta Thi' fraternity want to live out all their fantasies before they graduate.