Alexander Stewart

Two criminals take a trip up the coast of California. As they arrive at a small town- what should just be a small stop on the way- one of them begins to feel as though they've been their before.

An exploration of shame and queer identity as it relates to technology and pornography

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.

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 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.

“…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.”

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.

Footage courtesy of Chicago Film Archives. Made for the 2nd annual CFA Media Mixer, June 6, 2013

Precarious and fluid arrangements constantly interrupt one another in a montage of waiting, anticipating, and transitioning forms. Arrangements of marks and geometric forms are faced with unresolved states. Objects struggle to maintain their shape, stay upright, or avoid disappearing. "Crux Film" is an animation composed of segments of work by Lilli Carré and Alexander Stewart. Created over the course of several weeks in shared studio spaces, these simple animated segments developed directly in response to one another; ideas, images, challenges and structures ping-ponging back and forth between the two animator’s light boxes.

Short film directed by Alexander Stewart

"Crusts" combines a searing drone soundtrack with footage of mysterious architectural and natural artifacts. The film evolves from meditations on concrete physical textures to a complete stroboscopic transfiguration of the image. The footage is accompanied by a crushing, hypnotic onslaught of guitar and electronic noise by White/Light.

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.

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.

In footage from a 1990 world championship sprint race, two riders try and hold their bikes in place on the track as long as they possibly can. A second race between two contemporary riders shadows the original race, and a decayed velodrome overlaps with the memory of the stand-still. As three racing locations and times intersect, images from earlier races are recalled by an announcer's narration of an invisible race.

Mirror exercises in the woods.

"Iceland Spar" is a hand-drawn geometric evolution made from 10 drawings used to create full rotation of a set of cubes on three axes. From this set of 10 drawings, all possible movements of cubes were explored.

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

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.