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- Additional Crew
- Visual Effects
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Kyle Cooper has produced and directed hundreds of main title and visual effects sequences across a wide spectrum of film and broadcast mediums. Cooper received his MFA from Yale School of Art, where he studied independently with renowned American modernist Paul Rand. In his third year at Yale, Cooper was awarded the Mohawk Paper Traveling Fellowship to complete thesis research at the Sergei Eisenstein Kabinet in the then Soviet Union. Cooper was creative director at R/Greenberg Associates from 1988 to 1996. He founded and named Imaginary Forces in 1996 and went on to found Prologue Films, in 2003. Details magazine credits Cooper with "almost single-handedly revitalizing the main title sequence as an art form". Los Angeles magazine calls him the "Da Vinci of main titles." He is "one of the top 50 biggest and best thinkers from the last 20 years of advertising and consumer culture," according to Creativity magazine. "Not since Saul Bass' legendary preludes...have credits attracted such attention," proclaims Wired magazine. Cooper is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and holds the title of honorary Royal Designer for Industry from the Royal Society of Arts in London. He has seven Emmy nominations and two wins and was the recipient of the lifetime achievement medal from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, recognizing him for designing title sequences for film and television with a bold and unexpected style, conjuring emotional responses through his captivating use of narrative.- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Kyle Cooper is a multi-faceted creative leader in film, theatre, and interactive storytelling. Specializing in writing and directing, he approaches every project with a bold, unique, and highly inventive vision.
As a writer, Kyle contributed to Kevin Pollak's feature directing debut, "The Late Bloomer", starring J.K. Simmons and Brittany Snow; and he has created and developed projects for the Jim Henson Company, Simon Wells (dir. "The Prince of Egypt"), Donald Petrie (dir. "Miss Congeniality"), and Dennis Dugan (dir. "Grown Ups"). Additional developmental credits include "London Has Fallen", "Septembers of Shiraz", and Bernard Rose's "Frankenstein". He was also a writer for the popular Snapchat series, "Solve" (6 million subscribers).
As a director, his short film "Sing Cowboy Sing" (which he also wrote) was an Official Selection at the prestigious Beverly Hills and Pasadena Film Festivals. Other film credits include: "Eclectotron: Danger Inbound", "Love in Kind", "Teeth", "Assisted Living", "Izzy: Glass of Water", and "Terribly Rotten Tales: The Ninnycrumb Twins".
Theatre credits include: "Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play", "Waiting For Godot", "Blasted", "Shitty Awful Everything", "Bernarda Alba", "Red Scare on Sunset", and his own surrealist adaptations of "Hamlet", "Tis Pity", and "The Glass Menagerie".
Kyle received his MFA in Directing from California State University, Fullerton in 2019. He graduated from Chapman University in 2011.- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Kyle Cooper is known for A Home for the Holidays (2023), Blood Mountain (2017) and Incontrol (2017).- Kyle Cooper is known for The Defective Detective (2007).
- Kyle Cooper is known for Love 101: Freshman Class (2014).
- Camera and Electrical Department
Kyle L. Cooper is known for Our Last Summer (2016) and The Woman of the Mountain (2015).- Cinematographer
Kyle Cooper is known for Never Break Clown and The HARD Life and Times of Clownie Volume 1 (2023).- Cinematographer
- Producer
Kyle Cooper is known for Perfect Summer Evening (2023).- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Kyle Cooper is known for The ballad of good Billy (2018).- Kyle Cooper is known for Anillos de oro (1983).
- Editorial Department
Kyle Cooper is known for The Durrells (2016) and My Mother and Other Strangers (2016).