Mark Pellington
Mark Pellington is an American film director, writer, and producer.
Life and career
Pellington was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Bill Pellington, an All-Pro linebacker who played football with the Baltimore Colts for 12 seasons. Mark graduated from the University of Virginia in 1984, which he attended on an athletic scholarship, playing attack on the lacrosse team. He worked at MTV from 1984–1990, winning awards as a promo producer and creating the landmark TV documentary series Buzz.He became a freelance director in 1990, directing music videos for U2, Crystal Waters, De la Soul and Pearl Jam. His video for Pearl Jam's "Jeremy" won four MTV awards in 1993, including Best Director and Video of the Year, and his video for Whale's song "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" won the inaugural MTV Europe Music Award for Best Video in 1994.
Pellington then began directing feature films, including Going All the Way, starring Ben Affleck and Rachel Weisz, Arlington Road, starring Tim Robbins and Jeff Bridges, as well as The Mothman Prophecies, starring Richard Gere dealing with mysterious deaths foretold by a strange red-eyed flying creature, Mothman.
Pellington has also worked with such musical artists as Alice In Chains, Demi Lovato, Imagine Dragons, Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails, Cage the Elephant, Linkin Park, Echosmith, The Fray, Dave Matthews, Michael Jackson, Public Enemy, Moby, Flaming Lips, Damian Marley, Chelsea Wolfe and Bruce Springsteen. He also made cameo appearances in The Mothman Prophecies, Almost Famous, and Jerry Maguire. He directed the landmark mini-series The United States of Poetry for PBS in 1995, which won the INPUT Award, and created the look of pilots for hit network TV shows including Blindspot, Red Widow and Cold Case, as well as numerous commercials and personal documentaries, art projects and personal short films.
Feature film-wise, he also co-directed U2 3D, Henry Poole Is Here, I Melt with You, The Last Word, starring Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried, and Nostalgia, starring Jon Hamm, Ellen Burstyn, Catherine Keener and Bruce Dern.
Filmography
Director
Feature films
Short films & documentaries
Television
Music videos
| Year | Song | Artist | Ref |
| 1985 | "Dance Me to the End of Love" | Leonard Cohen | |
| 1986 | "Stay Right Here" | Deep 6 | |
| 1987 | "Silent Morning" | Noel | |
| 1988 | "What's on Your Mind " | Information Society | |
| 1989 | "Say No Go" | De La Soul | |
| 1989 | "Repetition" | Information Society | |
| 1990 | "Stone Cold Yesterday" | The Connells | |
| 1990 | "Love & Tears" | Maggie's Dream | |
| 1990 | "Pretty White" | Deep 6 | |
| 1991 | "Gypsy Woman " | Crystal Waters | |
| 1991 | "Swing It" | J.T. | |
| 1991 | "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" | P.M. Dawn | |
| 1992 | "One" | U2 | |
| 1992 | "Reality Used to Be a Friend of Mine" | P.M. Dawn | |
| 1992 | "Television, the Drug of the Nation" | The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy | |
| 1992 | "Jeremy" | Pearl Jam | |
| 1992 | "Shut 'Em Down" | Public Enemy | |
| 1992 | "Drive" | R.E.M. | |
| 1992 | "Peace and Love Inc." | Information Society | |
| 1993 | "Beautiful Girl" | INXS | |
| 1993 | "Independent" | Sacred Reich | |
| 1993 | "Rooster" | Alice in Chains | |
| 1993 | "Black Lodge" | Anthrax | |
| 1993 | "Butterfly" | Screaming Trees | |
| 1994 | "'74–'75" | The Connells | |
| 1994 | "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" | Whale | |
| 1994 | "Hey Baby" | Maggie Estep & I Love Everybody | |
| 1994 | "Trigger Inside" | Therapy? | |
| 1995 | "Waydown" | Catherine Wheel | |
| 1995 | "Tomorrow" | Silverchair | |
| 1995 | "Kickin'" | Whale | |
| 1996 | "Ladykillers" | Lush | |
| 1996 | "Low" | Sacred Reich | |
| 1996 | "Beautiful Girl" | Pete Droge & the Sinners | |
| 1997 | "Midnight in Chelsea" | Jon Bon Jovi | |
| 1997 | "Queen of New Orleans" | Jon Bon Jovi | |
| 1997 | "Janie, Don't Take Your Love to Town" | Jon Bon Jovi | |
| 1997 | "Staring at Your Window with a Suitcase in My Hand" | Jon Bon Jovi | |
| 1998 | "Ugly" | Jon Bon Jovi | |
| 1999 | "We're in This Together" | Nine Inch Nails | |
| 2002 | "Lonesome Day" | Bruce Springsteen | |
| 2002 | "Do You Realize??" | The Flaming Lips | |
| 2002 | "Half Light" | Low featuring Tomandandy | |
| 2003 | "Wasted Time" | Kings of Leon | |
| 2004 | "Gravedigger" | Dave Matthews | |
| 2004 | "She Has No Time" | Keane | |
| 2005 | "Everybody's Changing" | Keane | |
| 2005 | "Best of You" | Foo Fighters | |
| 2006 | "How to Save a Life" | The Fray | |
| 2006 | "Falling by the Wayside" | People in Planes | |
| 2007 | "Soulmate" | Natasha Bedingfield | |
| 2008 | "Girls in Their Summer Clothes " | Bruce Springsteen | |
| 2008 | "Henry Poole Is Here" | Ron Irizarry | |
| 2008 | "We're Not Beautiful" | Emma Ejwertz | |
| 2009 | "One Time We Lived" | Moby | |
| 2010 | "Syndicate" | The Fray | |
| 2010 | "New Morning" | Alpha Rev | |
| 2010 | "Laredo" | Band of Horses | |
| 2010 | "Infinite Arms" | Band of Horses | |
| 2010 | "Hold My Hand" | Michael Jackson | |
| 2010 | "Spanking Machines" | Permission | |
| 2011 | "Care" | Kid Rock | |
| 2011 | "Skyscraper" | Demi Lovato | |
| 2012 | "I Won't Give Up" | Jason Mraz | |
| 2014 | "Final Masquerade" | Linkin Park | |
| 2014 | "Cigarette Daydreams" | Cage the Elephant | |
| 2014 | "Cool Kids" | Echosmith | |
| 2014 | "Giants" | Bear Hands | |
| 2014 | "Feral Love" | Chelsea Wolfe | |
| 2014 | "The Waves Have Come" | Chelsea Wolfe | |
| 2014 | "Let the Fireflies Fly Away" | Mark Mulcahy | |
| 2014 | "Young Blood" | Bea Miller | |
| 2014 | "Why Not Me" | The Indecent | |
| 2015 | "Human Race" | Three Days Grace | |
| 2015 | "Where's the Indifference Now?" | Mark Mulcahy | |
| 2015 | "Nightlight" | Silversun Pickups | |
| 2016 | "Dynasty" | MIIA | |
| 2016 | "Lost Boy" | Ruth B | |
| 2017 | "Gold" | The Shelters | |
| 2017 | "Tell Me You Love Me" | Demi Lovato | |
| 2018 | "Next to Me" | Imagine Dragons | |
| 2018 | "Autumn Leaves" | Damian Marley | |
| 2018 | "Fly" | Low | - |