My films have screened at MoMA Doc Fortnight, Lincoln Center’s Art of The Real, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Visions du Réel and others. I’ve worked as a cinematographer internationally, including the US, Brazil, China, the South Pacific, Europe and Central Africa, and have contributed to Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentaries. I work as an editor, graphics artist and sound designer on films and installations.
In Production
I’m currently developing two feature film projects: Supply Chain: a docu-fiction about crypto mining, and Saffron Highway: a narrative about saffron.
- Feature Film
- 58 min, 29 seconds
- DCI 4K video
Steady Clip is a feature film that I created using a single unedited video clip and my voice. It was produced between December 3 and 4, 2024.
- Documentary, Science Fiction [In Production]
- Feature Film
- 4K video, 2.1 sound
“The Jurassic Park of experimental bitcoin mining documentaries.”
– No one, ever
– No one, ever
Supply Chain is a feature-length hybrid documentary exploring cryptocurrency mining as a material, environmental, and cultural force. Developed over nearly a decade, the film blends vérité footage, archival media, speculative fiction, and animated commentary from an unreliable AI narrator named Chippy—offering a long-view perspective on how crypto reshapes the physical world. [In Production, visit the dedicated → microsite]
- 2023
Feature film interpretive script/ outline - in development
- 2023
- 2 min.
- 4K video, 2.1 sound
This is a collaboration with poet Gin Hart, based on their poem, cataboum. It was produced for a screening series at Shadow Kitchen in Coaxial Space, Los Angeles. The video is a broken 1200mm shot of a sunset at an antennae array near Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, CA.
- 2021
- 32 min. (stream) and 149 min., looping
- 4K video, 2.1 sound
- Narrative short film/ installation
- IMDb
The Registry is a layered psychological horror film that marks Alex Tyson’s first foray into narrative storytelling. Drawing on the history of the U.S. military’s biological twin study, stock footage economies, and the cinematic trope of "seeing double," the film weaves intersecting storylines about memory, media, and family. Embedded within this narrative is a critique of how documentary subjects are tokenized, packaged, and traded by the nonfiction media industry.
Originally commissioned as a two-channel installation by Sheffield DocFest in 2021, the work was later adapted into a medium-length film and presented by MEMORY alongside the companion essay Twinning: Production Notes on The Registry [pdf]. The soundtrack was composed by Ben Babbitt, with an additional cue by Jeff Witscher.
“An evolution from his past works of formally innovative documentary film, The Registry is the artist’s first narrative work, an elliptical, layered psychological horror that brings together multiple storylines which intersect in complex ways. Embedded within these narrative threads are topics salient to the documentary/non-fiction field: the afterlives of images of war and their fictional representation; the potential tokenization of subjects, stories, and makers by the industry; and the ethical dilemmas arising from the commercialization of the stock footage market.”
– Herb Shellenberger
Curator, Sheffield DocFest (2021)
Curator, Sheffield DocFest (2021)
(w/ Jasper Spicero)
- 2019
- Documentary Film
- 4K video, 2.1 sound
ARBECY follows Jerry Simon, a United States Air Force veteran and former Gang Task Force officer who conducts musical therapy for the blind and disabled using his patented wireless technology, ARBECY®. Set in and around Las Vegas, Nevada, the film also chronicles Jerry’s search for Mary Anne, a blind girl who inspired his decades-long journey to become an inventor and music therapy composer. This is a collaboration with Jasper Spicero and the film is in early development.
- 2018
- 12 min. (stream)
- 2K video, 2.1 sound
- Documentary
- IMDb
Produced during the Due South residency in collaboration with National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) in Sicily, Italy. Filmed throughout Parco cell’Etna, Nicolosi, and Catania. John Broderick Heron provided support and inspiration.
- 2015
- 5 min. (stream)
- 2K video, 2.1 sound
- Narrative short film
- IMDb
Commissioned for New Works: Ciné-Roman (films in response to Chris Marker's La Jetée), "3 Minutes in America" is an experimental narrative criss-crossing the continental US. The film presents a romance unfolding amid an array of contemporary phenomena; including vaccine production, basketball games, fracking, and insider trading. A collaboration with photographer Barb Choit.
Mountain Fire Personnel is an experimental documentary that explores a wild fire across 27,000 acres in Southern California. Using over 30 sources of amateur footage, internet media and professional camerawork, the film surveys the response by firefighters and California State Prisoners. Winner of the Prix du Jury la Mobilière at Visions du Réel (2015) and a participant of MoMA Doc Fortnight (2016).
The film is available to stream on YouTube, or VOD via Tenk.ca (Canada) and Doc Alliance Films (Europe).