Alison McAlpine

© Alison McAlpine

Online cinema

• perfectly a strangeness
  

  • Docufiction
  • 15 min
  • sans dialogue
  • 2024

• Cielo
  

  • Documentaire
  • 78 min
  • espagnol
  • 2018

Filmography

• perfectly a strangeness

  • Docufiction
  • 15 min
  • sans dialogue
  • 2024
  Dans l’éblouissante incandescence d’un désert, trois ânes croisent un observatoire astronomique abandonné et l’univers. Une exploration sensorielle et cinématique sur la façon de raconter une histoire. Main theme: Environnement, Secondary theme(s): Art et culture, Société.

• Cielo

  • Documentaire
  • 78 min
  • espagnol
  • 2018
  Cielo est une rêverie cinématographique sur l’immense beauté du ciel nocturne dans le désert d’Atacama, au Chili, l’une des régions du monde les plus propices à l’exploration et à la… Main theme: Environnement, Secondary theme(s): Géographie, Société.

• Second Sight

  • Documentaire
  • 51 min
  • anglais
  • 2008
  Imaginez une histoire de fantômes, cinématique, non fictionnelle. Un mystère, un conte personnel évocateur. Homme séduisant et galant, au sourire facile, Donald Angus MacLean, 80 ans, nous invite à découvrir… Main theme: Histoire, Secondary theme(s): Société, Vieillesse.

BIOGRAPHY

Alison began her career as a published poet. Discovering theatre in Ireland, she soon after wrote and directed music-theatre works which toured Canada and Europe.

The success of her commission to write a TVOpera, inspired Alison to make her first film, Second Sight (2008), an award-winning mid-length film. Cielo, Alison’s award winning first feature, was presented at over 400 international film festivals and cinemas, Cielo has been critically acclaimed by Variety, The Village Voice, The Globe and Mail, Le Devoir and named as “One of the best documentaries of 2018” by Esquire and “The best films of 2018…that you didn’t see” by The Guardian.

perfectly a strangeness, Alison’s first short film, had its World Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, Official Competition 2024, followed by TIFF, IDFA “Best of Fests” and over 100 international film festivals, playing in 34 countries, winning 24 awards. perfectly a strangeness has been nominated by the Academy Awards 2026, Best Short Documentary Film, and nominated by Cinema Eye Honors, Best Nonfiction Short Film 2026.

A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, Alison is currently working on her first feature fiction film and a feature hybrid documentary.

• Documentaire, Fiction, Expérimental
• Court métrage, Moyen métrage, Long métrage
• Film

EMAIL
films@alisonmcalpine.com

WEB SITE
alisonmcalpine.com

USEFUL REFERENCES AND LINKS

Site Internet du film Cielo
Site internet du film perfectly a strangeness