Alexandre O. Philippe is a Swiss film director whose films include the documentaries '' Doc of the Dead'', '' The People vs. George Lucas'', and ''78/52''.Filmmaker Magazine - Alexandre O. Phillipe
/ref> Philippe is Creative Director and co-owner of Denver-based Cinema Vertige and his most recent commissioned work for the City of Denver garnered four Heartland Emmy Awards.

Career

Phillippe received a MFA in Dramatic Writing from

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's Tisch School of the Arts. He has directed several narrative and documentary shorts, including ''Left'', ''the Spot'' and ''Inside'', which screened at over 70 international film festivals, and won several awards. ''Left'' was the first film to have been recorded, edited and mixed at 192 kHz/24-bit for

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’s process of lossless encoding in TrueHD 5.1 surround sound technology, and was honoured by the

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Foundation in Japan. '' The People vs. George Lucas'' was his third feature documentary, after ''Chick Flick'' (about

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) and ''Earthlings,'' an examination of the

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language phenomenon. He was also Second Unit Director on Dirk Simon’s ''When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun'' ), which premiered at the 2010 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, won three Movie Maverick Awards. Phillippe's 2017 documentary ''78/52'' deconstructs the infamous shower scene from director Alfred Hitchcock's '' Psycho''.RogerEbert.com "Hot Docs Interview 2017: Alexandre O. Philippe on '78/52'" by Matt Fagerholm May 5, 2017
/ref> Film critic Owen Gleiberman of Variety remarked "Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe, who made the elegant and searching ''Doc of the Dead'', ''78/52'' centers on an up-close analysis of the shower scene that’s at once delirious and definitive; the movie is also a cinematic meditation that features a wealth of terrific anecdotes about the creation of Hitchcock’s masterpiece."Variety Film Review: "78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene’ A hypnotic film-geek doc about the 'Psycho' shower scene digs deep into the mystique of the Hitchcock film that shook the world" by Owen Gleiberman January 24, 2017
/ref> The documentary features interviews with actors

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and

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(daughter of star

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), Osgood Perkins (son of

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), directors

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, film editors

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, and Marli Renfro (body double for Janet Leigh). The title refers to the number of set ups in the scene and the number of cuts, each one dissected and analyzed by film historians and enthusiasts. Kenneth Turan of the ''

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'' reviewed the film, expressing that it is "obsessive but accessible, the deepest dive imaginable into one of the most celebrated scenes in movie history, the documentary "78/52" looks at a brief three minutes of cinema the way it's never been looked at before."

Film

* 2003 ''Chick Flick: The Miracle Mike Story'' (Documentary) * 2004 ''Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water'' (Documentary) * 2006 ''Left'' (Short) * 2008 '' The Spot'' (Documentary short) * 2009 ''Inside'' (Short) * 2010 '' The People vs. George Lucas'' (Documentary) * 2011 ''The Right to Breathe'' (Documentary short) * 2012 ''The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus'' (Documentary) * 2014 '' Doc of the Dead'' (Documentary) * 2017 ''78/52'' (Documentary) - Distributed by IFC * 2019 '' Memory: The Origins of Alien'' (Documentary) * 2020 ''Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist'' (Documentary) * 2021 ''The Taking'' * 2022 '' Lynch/Oz'' * 2023 ''You Can Call Me Bill'' (Documentary)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Philippe, Alexandre O. Swiss documentary film directors Living people Tisch School of the Arts alumni Year of birth missing (living people)