H-Gun

H-Gun Labs, officially, H-Gun Corp. (1988–2001) was a film/animation consortium which started in Chicago and expanded to include a San Francisco studio. H-Gun began as a collective of students from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College in Chicago who were involved with making art, film, and music. Originally, UNGH! was the name of the band formed by founders Eric Zimmermann and Benjamin Stokes. The band nearly got signed to major recording label, but the group disbanded. Once they began making visuals or music videos for the music they were producing, and for other recording artists, they created H-Gun Corp. The name was loosely referred to as "The Lab" or "H-Gun Labs."

The H-Gun family of friends, collaborators, fine artists, studio technicians, musicians consisted of core group of employees and many freelance and independent contractors. H-Gun gained attention by being a Chicago-based music video company when at the time the industry was dominated by East Coast and West Coast production companies.

Their early videos included work for their own band, Ungh! and led to commissions for the following recording artists: Ministry, LaTour, Nine Inch Nails, Revolting Cocks, Public Enemy, De La Soul, Megadeth, Smashing Pumpkins, Killing Joke, Meat Beat Manifesto, Young Black Teenagers, Son of Bazerk, Anthrax, KMFDM, K Solo, Mr. Lee, Rights of the Accused, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, I Mother Earth, Prong, Consolidated, 808 State, Crystal Waters, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, Melvins, SNAFU, Offspring, Infectious Grooves, Suicidal Tendencies, Fleming and John, Josh Wink, The Orb, Rise Robots Rise, Nude Swirl, Diamanda Galas, Lead Into Gold, Pigface, New Order, Fear of God, Brian May, Living Colour, Next School, Treponem Pal, Shaman, Poe, Skid Row, Mind Funk, Fred Schneider, Holly Palmer, Wax, Mint Condition, The Hangmen, Corrosion of Conformity, Teenage Fan Club, Supersuckers, Girls Vs Boys, Iron Maiden and many more.

The two original founding members were Eric Zimmermann and Ben Stokes. Quickly Eric Koziol a fellow School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) collaborator and freelance producer/assistant director, Jim Deloye joined the company and became shareholders. Other contributors to the H-Gun chemistry and artistry were Eric Matthies, Wing Ko, CW Hayes, Elizabeth Biron, Barbara Schwarz, Dawn Rubin, Adrian Dimond, Maximum Greyspace, David Marine,Craig Coutts, Roxanna Markewiecz, Mak Knighton, Dawn Smallman, Damon Mena, Laura Dame, Robert Bial, Jason Voke, Chris O'Dowd, Tau Gerber, James Colao, Vello Virkhaus, Davey Force, John Goodman, Ivan DeWolfe, Jon Schnepp, Patsy Desmond, Danielle Beverly, Ty Bardi, Sheleigh Highsmith (now a psychiatric nurse practitioner), and scores of interns, freelancers, friends and collaborators.

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