Alexandre Rockwell

Born: 1956-08-18

Alexandre Rockwell was born in Boston in 1956. His first film, LENZ, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 1982. After his road movie HERO (1983), he directed the legendary SAM FULLER IN SONS (1989). In 1992 he won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival for his film IN THE SOUP, which made his reputation as one of the most interesting filmmakers on America’s independent film scene. SOMEBODY TO LOVE (1994) competed at the Venice flim Festival. Rockwell also directed ‘The Wrong Man’ segment of the anthology film FOUR ROOMS (1995), as well as the comedies LOUIS & FRANK (1998), 13 MOONS (2002) and PETE SMALLS IS DEAD (2010). In 2017, he was appointed head of directing at the graduate film department of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. His film SWEET THING (2020) was selected at the Berlinale Generation 2020.


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Caro diario

as Self
Released: 1993-10-12

Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic...

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13 Moons

as Man
Released: 2002-08-30

Things aren't looking so good for television clown Banana's career, and the fact that his...

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Nobody Wants Your Film

as Self
Released: 2005-05-06

Director Peter Judson's semifictitious tale opens a revealing window into the indie filmmaking...

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Rockets Redglare!

as Self
Released: 2003-05-02

A portrait of Rockets Redglare, the morbidly obese fixture of New York's underground until his...

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Edge of Outside

as Self
Released: 2006-06-11

An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W....

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Lenz

as Lenz
Released: 1981-05-04

A loose adaptation of German writer and revolutionary Georg Büchner's novella of the same name,...

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Dreams about Alfeoni

as Self - director, grandson of Alexeieff
Released: 2002-04-30

Alexander Alekseev, Alyosha, Alfeoni ... artist, animator, inventor. The author of "Night on...

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