Richard Stanley

Richard Stanley (born 22 November 1966) is an award-winning film director, screenwriter, anthropologist and esoteric scholar born in South Africa. Stanley's work as a writer and director includes music videos for 'Fields of the Nephilim', 'Public Image Limited' and 'Renegade Soundwave' as well as the apocalyptic science fiction film 'Hardware' and the supernatural horror film 'Dust Devil'. His documentary work includes 'The Voice of the Moon' a visual chronicle of the events leading up to the civil war in Afghanistan during which Stanley spent several months living among the pagan tribal people of the Hindu Kush, 'The White Darkness' which deals with the clash of cultures between Voodoo and Christianity following the American occupation of Haiti and 'The Secret Glory' which concerns the life and enigmatic death of the German Jewish Grail historian Otto Wilhelm Rahn.

Stanley recently contributed the opening segment to the horror anthology 'The Theatre Bizarre' - a homage to Oscar Metanier's Le Theatre du Grande Guignol. He is currently based in the Cathar enclave of Montsegur, France where he is working on a biography of the castle's final chatelaine - Esclarmonde d'Alion - who lead the resistance against the Christian crusaders in the early 13th century.