# Mark Pellington

Mark Pellington (born March 17, 1962) 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 (1990).
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 (1997), starring Ben Affleck and Rachel Weisz, Arlington Road (1999), starring Tim Robbins and Jeff Bridges, as well as The Mothman Prophecies (2002), 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 (International Public Television) 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 (2005), Henry Poole Is Here (2008), I Melt with You (2011), The Last Word (2017), starring Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried, and Nostalgia (2018), starring Jon Hamm, Ellen Burstyn, Catherine Keener and Bruce Dern.

## Filmography
### Feature films

| Year | Title | Awards and nominations |
| 1997 | Going All the Way | Nominated – Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize |
| 1999 | Arlington Road | Nominated – Grand Prix Award at the Paris Film Festival Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film |
| 2002 | The Mothman Prophecies | |
| 2007 | U2 3D | |
| 2008 | Henry Poole Is Here | |
| 2011 | I Melt with You | |
| 2017 | The Last Word | |
| 2018 | Nostalgia | |
| 2022 | The Severing | |
| 2025 | Lone Wolf | |

### Short films & documentaries

| Year | Title | Notes |
| 1992 | U2: Achtung Baby: the Videos, the Cameos and a Whole Lot of Interference from ZOO-TV | |
| 1995 | United States of Poetry | PBS documentary mini-series |
| 1997 | Destination Anywhere | Bon Jovi short film |
| 1998 | Pearl Jam: Single Video Theory | |
| 1999 | Alice in Chains: Music Bank: The Videos | |
| 1999 | Of Time and Memory | |
| 2002 | The Place We Call Earth | |
| 2003 | Day by Day: A Director's Journey Part 1 & 2 | |
| 2004 | I'm Only Looking – The Best of INXS | |
| 2005 | The Flaming Lips: VOID (Video Overview in Deceleration) | |
| 2005 | Keane: Strangers | Video: "Everybody's Changing" (U.S. version) |
| 2014 | Lone | Featuring Chelsea Wolfe |
| 2017 | "Soul of the Machine" | Aston Martin promo, featuring Tom Brady |
| 2018 | "Mirror/Shadow" documentary | |
| 2020 | Nightwalkers | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Notes |
| 1990 | Buzz | |
| 1990 | Red Hot + Blue | ABC TV special (The Jungle Brothers: "I Get a Kick Out of You") |
| 1991 | Alive from Off Center | 1 episode - "Words in Your Face" |
| 1992 | Punch and Judy Get Divorced | |
| 1997 | Homicide: Life on the Street | 1 episode – "Blood Ties: Part 3" |
| 2003–2007 | Cold Case | 7 episodes |
| 2009 | Back | |
| 2013 | Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives | |
| 2013 | Anatomy of Violence | |
| 2013 | Red Widow | 1 episode – "Pilot" |
| 2014 | Cocaine Cowboys | 1 episode – "Pilot" |
| 2015 | Blindspot | 4 episodes |
| 2018 | The Enemy Within | 1 episode - "Pilot" |
| 2019 | Star Trek: Short Treks | 2 episodes |
| 2020 | Survive | |

### Music videos

| Year | Song | Artist |
| 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 (Pure Energy)" | Information Society |
| 1988 | "Walking Away" | 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 (She's Homeless)" | 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??" (UK version) | 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 (Winter Mix)" | Bruce Springsteen |
| 2008 | "Henry Poole Is Here" | Ron Irizarry |
| 2008 | "We're Not Beautiful" | Emma Ejwertz |
| 2009 | "One Time We Lived" (version 2) | 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 | "Fly" | Low |
| 2018 | "Next to Me" | Imagine Dragons |
| 2018 | "Autumn Leaves" | Damian Marley |
| 2019 | "You're Somebody Else" | Flora Cash |

### Feature films

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2000 | No Maps for These Territories | Executive Producer |
| 2002 | OT: Our Town | Executive Producer |
| 2003 | Day by Day: A Director's Journey Part I | Producer |
| 2003 | Day by Day: A Director's Journey Part II | Producer |
| 2004 | Time Well Spent | Executive Producer |
| 2003–2007 | Cold Case | Consulting Producer (77 episodes) |
| 2007 | The Man from Earth | Executive Producer |
| 2008 | Henry Poole Is Here | Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Shipping and Receiving (short) | Executive Producer |
| 2011 | I Melt with You | Producer |
| 2017 | The Last Word | Producer |
| 2018 | Nostalgia | Producer |
| TBA | The Severing | Producer |