Alexandre O. Philippe

Alexandre O. Philippe is a Swiss film director best known for the documentary films Doc of the Dead, The People vs. George Lucas, and the 2017 post-modern documentary examination of the Psycho shower scene directed by Alfred Hitchcock entitled 78/52 which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.[1][2] 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.[3]

Alexandre O. Philippe
Born
Geneva, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
CitizenshipSwiss
EducationMFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts
Alma materNew York University
OccupationDirector
Years active2000–present

Career

Phillippe received a MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.[3] 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, the Spot was the first film to have been recorded, edited and mixed at 192 kHz/24-bit for Dolby’s process of lossless encoding in TrueHD 5.1 surround sound technology, and was honoured by the Akira Kurosawa Foundation in Japan. The People vs. George Lucas was his third feature documentary, after Chick Flick (about Colorado’s own Mike the Headless Chicken) and Earthlings a quirky and stylish examination of the Klingon 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.[4] 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."[5] The documentary features interviews with actors Elijah Wood and Jamie Lee Curtis (daughter of star Janet Leigh), Osgood Perkins (son of Anthony Perkins), directors Peter Bogdanovich, Guillermo del Toro, Eli Roth, Karyn Kusama, film editors Walter Murch, Chris Innis, Bob Murawski, 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.[2] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times 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."[6]

Film
  • 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[2]
  • 2019 Memory: The Origins of Alien (Documentary)[7]

References
  1. Filmmaker Magazine - Alexandre O. Phillipe
  2. Jr, Mike Fleming (2017-01-28). "IFC Midnight Grabs '78/52′, Dissection Of 'Psycho' Shower Scene – Sundance". Deadline. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
  3. "Alexandre O. Philippe". peoplevsgeorge.com The People Vs. George Lucas official web site. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
  4. RogerEbert.com "Hot Docs Interview 2017: Alexandre O. Philippe on '78/52'" by Matt Fagerholm May 5, 2017
  5. 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
  6. Turan, Kenneth. "'78/52' brilliantly, obsessively breaks down shower scene in 'Psycho'". latimes.com. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
  7. Patches, Matt (January 29, 2019). "An elaborate, new Alien documentary reminds us that video essays are a legitimate art". Polygon. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
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