Hayley Morris Archives

Another artful film from the magic bag o’ tricks of Hayley Morris. Beautiful lighting concepts and paper work in this music video for Pure Bathing Culture. She really pushes her materials and medium with an amazing synchronicity of detailed craft, hard work and inspired organic spontaneity. The balance of motion shots, depth of field, angling, and engaging animation conveys flight and all works so well with the music. Read on for some insights into the production from Hayley.

“joy ” for iron and wine by morris

2013-05-05

It’s only delight with an unassuming visionary. Raw yet refined, in both emotion and artistry, this is a quintessential Hayley Morris piece. Lighting, construction, animation, concept….all just a big sweetly and expertly constellated wow. She was written up by NPR. Read on, as Hayley generously shares some cold hard facts about her very beautiful process and inspirations.

bounce bounce by morris

2012-05-18

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Hayley Morris orchestrates another tapestry of texture and delight with ‘Bounce Bounce’ set to lauded violinist Hilary Hahn and composer Hauschka, who places found objects into his piano to create a layered and unexpected resonance….much like Hayley’s work.

little scraps of paper by leach

2012-03-14

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This look into the studio of artist and animator Hayley Morris is part of British Director Tomas Leach’s intriguing documentary series ‘Little Scraps of Paper’. The films are explorations of varied artists’ individual spaces and the initial steps they take in order to create their work and document their ideas. The series includes writers, designers, illustrators, chefs and musicians.

Above, Hayley has kindly released some precious ‘scraps’ from her own sketchbook and work.