Film director Alexander Stewart

Alexander Stewart

2021
Alexander Stewart (1981, Mobile, Alabama) received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His short films have screened internationally, including at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and Image Forum in Japan. He co-curated the Flaherty NYC’s 2019 series “Puzzling”, and in 2010 co-founded the annual Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Experimental Animation program at CalArts.
Фильмы

100 Foot Pull

Alexander Stewart

A camera is pulled 100 feet across a field in the time it takes to shoot 100 feet of film. The camera is weighed down with a small boulder to make the task appropriately difficult.

100 Foot Pull

2010 100 Foot Pull

Peacock

Alexander Stewart

Peacock by Alexander Stewart deconstructs cinema into a few of its core components through its dazzling manipulation of light, shape, and movement. A feast for both eyes and ears, Stewart’s 16mm film seemingly adopts a referential approach, intentional or not, towards the musical genres of classical and jazz as it muses on the concepts of repetition, pattern, and eventual variation.

Peacock

2014 Peacock

On the Logic of Dubious Historical Accounts. 1969-1972

Alexander Stewart

This film recreates Hasselblad cameras falling through space and hitting the surface of the moon. On each of the Apollo moon missions, NASA astronauts brought along such cameras. They were left behind in order to cut down on weight for the return trip to earth

On the Logic of Dubious Historical Accounts. 1969-1972

2021 On the Logic of Dubious Historical Accounts. 1969-1972

Fort Morgan

Alexander Stewart

“…inspired by a brick fort of the same name on the Alabama coast. Following an intricate geometric diagram, the fort grows of its own accord like an oyster shell or a crystal forming, until it is eccentrically shaped, encrusted and overgrown.”

Fort Morgan

2014 Fort Morgan
США

4000 Frame Throw (Pitchin' Machine)

Alexander Stewart

Short film directed by Alexander Stewart

4000 Frame Throw (Pitchin' Machine)

2011 4000 Frame Throw (Pitchin' Machine)

Void Vision

Alexander Stewart

Void Vision focuses on a cinematic scenario where the real and the simulated are equally constructions. It presents images to be questioned, as the nature of reality is considered and re-considered in a fever-dream of paranoia and reification.

Void Vision

2018 Void Vision
США, мультфильм

Errata

Alexander Stewart

An experimental film that uses a photocopier to generate frames of animation. Each frame of the film is a photocopy of the previous frame. Both black & white and color photocopies were used to make this film, approximately 4,600 copies total.

Errata

2005 Errata

100 Foot Ride

Alexander Stewart

A stationary bike is set up to manually crank a 16mm Bolex camera with a loop of wire. The bike is pedaled to move 100 feet of film through the camera.

100 Foot Ride

2010 100 Foot Ride

Here There

Alexander Stewart

Here There gives graphic form to memory’s malleable, straying lines. It begins as a traveler’s sketchbook, drawn in Croatia in the summer of 2014, but details soon fade away into abstract impressions on the edges of memory. This film is a reduction to the essence, a condensed feeling of one place and time.

Here There

2015 Here There
Хорватия, мультфильм