Hal Pilkington
  
   Director of Photography
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Hal Pilkington is a London based director of photography. He has shot a range of commercial work for clients such as Amazon Prime Video, Nike, Umbro and Samsung.

In 2025, his music video ‘Sundiata’ by Fuse ODG was nominated at the UK Music Video Awards for Best Hip Hop Video UK.

While reading philosophy at university, he met a group of filmmakers and together founded the production company Campdale Motion, for which he has lensed narrative short films, including the 16mm sci-fi drama ‘A Flight of Fancy’ currently on the festival circuit.

Hal’s approach to storytelling is heavily influenced by his background in the lighting department working on long-form productions for Netflix and the BBC.

A few of his favourite filmmakers: Michaelangelo Antonnioni, Gaspar Noe, Ming-liang Tsai,  Andrei Tarkovsky, Roy Andersson, Ozu Yasujiro and Bi Gan.    
 

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