Alexandre O. Philippe / 2006 / Experimental / United States / Without dialogues
/ 10'05" / 35 mm / All audiences
An impressionistic short film largely inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s paintings Christina’s World and Helga, LEFT centers around the heartbreaking separation between a woman and the man she loves. Devoid of dialogue, this haunting and operatic film poetically reveals the grief of a woman trapped by the memory of her husband’s departure in the midst of windswept grasslands.
Alexandre O. Philippe holds a Masters Degree in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he won both the Founder’s Day Award and the Senior Achievement Award. He is the Director of the Lighthouse Screenwriting Program (formerly known as the Denver Screenwriting Center) and the Denver Screenplay Bank (divisions of Lighthouse Writers, Inc. in association with the Denver Film Society). His stage plays have been produced in San Francisco and New York City in venues such as La MaMa, ETC, The Provincetown Playhouse, and Musical Theater Works. After several years as a working screenwriter, Alexandre turned to directing. His first film, CHICK FLICK (The Miracle Mike Story), screened at the 2003 Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (South Korea), the 2003 Fantastisk Film Festival in Lund (Sweden), and was the only film to sell out four times at the 2003 Denver International Film Festival. His second film, EARTHLINGS (Ugly Bags of Mostly Water)--which chronicles the lives and quirks of Klingon speakers and the strange world of the Klingon Language Institute--premiered at the 2004 Denver International Film Festival after a sneak preview at Icon 2004 in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was also shown at PhilCon 2004 in Philadelphia, CascadiaCon 2005 in Seattle, and was selected as the opening night film at the 2005 Far Out Fantastic Film Festival in Leicester, UK. EARTHLINGS has been picked up for distribution by Los Angeles-based Shoreline Entertainment, and was voted Best Local Film of the Year by Westword in 2005. Alexandre has also recently been selected by the City of Greeley (North of Denver) and by Denver Water to direct two documentaries about the importance and relevance of water in Colorado. He is an interviewer for Creature Comforts USA (Aardman Studios), which will premiere on CBS in 2007.
