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Alex Ross Perry

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Alex Ross Perry

Born July 14, 1984 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, USA14 films

Alex Ross Perry is an American filmmaker and actor. He has written and directed a series of feature films centred on unconventional characters and rife with the anxieties and joys of creation. His films have been internationally acclaimed at film festivals such as Sundance, Toronto, Locarno, Berlin, and others. He is most known for Listen Up Philip, which premiered in 2014 at the Sundance Film Festival and later won the Special Jury Prize at the 2014 Locarno International Film Festival, and Her Smell (2018), which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and screened at the New York Film Festival the same year. Besides being a prolific independent filmmaker with many of his fiction feature films internationally recognised, he also experimented with documentary, non-fiction, and music. His documentary-fiction hybrid, Pavements (2024), is an experimental musical biopic concert film that premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.

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Filmography

14 films as director
  1. TBAThe NamesDirector
  2. 2025V/H/S/HalloweenDirector
  3. 2025VideoheavenDirector
  4. 2025PavementsDirector
  5. 2024Rite Here Rite NowDirector
  6. 2022Metal Myths: Ghost Pt. 2Director
  7. 2020Paul Schrader: Man in a RoomDirector
  8. 2019Her SmellDirector
  9. 2018Golden ExitsDirector
  10. 2015Queen of EarthDirector
  11. 2014Listen Up PhilipDirector
  12. 2013The Sixth YearDirector
  13. 2012The Color WheelDirector
  14. 2009ImpolexDirector