Helen Hall Pro

Helen Hall is an award-winning producer, director, and composer dedicated to exploring the intersection of art, science, and energy. With more than 30 years of experience, she creates films that weave original research with cinematic storytelling to illuminate complex and unusual subjects.

Her music and films have been performed, broadcast, and exhibited internationally. Her research has been published by Leonardo Magazine (MIT Press), and her music is forthcoming from Da Vinci Edition in Japan.

Powerlines, her first film, explores the mystery of electromagnetic fields and began as a musical score composed from the sound waves of artificial electromagnetic radiation. The film won the International Jury Award at the International Festival of Films on Energy in Switzerland, has since screened at Culture Unplugged and other global festivals. It has been featured in the book Design Noir (Anthony Dunne, UK) and Musicworks magazine (Toronto), and the soundtrack for the film was released independently on CD.

Her music is inspired by natural phenomena such as the resonant frequency of the Earth's magnetic field, the rhythm of breathing, and the voices of stars, and rooted in sound as a way of knowing — from the electromagnetic score at the heart of Powerlines to Star Music, attuned to the resonant voices of stars.

Helen is now completing Pictures of Infinity, a feature documentary drawing on more than two decades of research into Nikola Tesla's long-hidden blueprint for a sustainable energy future. The project has received the Roy W. Dean Award and the Carole Dorothy Joyce Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking. She is also in development on Star Music, a documentary that listens to the resonant voices of stars through the language of music and film.

Helen Hall lives and works in Montréal, Canada, and serves on the Advisory Council of the International Institute of Film Science and Arts in New York City.