www.alextyson.net
Selected Films
I’m a filmmaker and artist based in Los Angeles, California, originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I have screened at MoMA Doc Fortnight, Lincoln Center’s Art of The Real, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Visions du Réel and others. I have worked as a non-fiction cinematographer internationally, including the US, Brazil, China, the South Pacific, Europe and Central Africa, and have contributed to Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning documentaries which are distributed widely. I primarily work as an editor and sound designer on feature films, shorts and installations.


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In Production
I’m currently developing two feature film projects: one is a docu-fiction about crypto mining (2016 – present), the other is a narrative about saffron (2023 - present).
Cataboum (with Gin Hart)
  • 2023
  • 2 min.
  • 4K video, 2.1 sound



This is a collaboration with poet Gin Hart, 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.
The Registry

The Registry is mid-length horror film about the Vietnam War, documentary filmmaking and biological twins. It was commissioned by Sheffield Doc/Fest with support from Arts Council England. The project was originally installed as a two-channel video, and later presented online by MEMORY with the BTS essay, Twinning: Production Notes on The Registry [pdf]. The soundtrack was composed by Ben Babbitt, with another 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)
Divieto 2 (Forbidden 2)


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.
3 Minutes in America


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


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).