Alex Barrett

Director, Writer

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My Details

 

Male
Great Britain , London

Current Work Details

What I do

Writer, Director

Website

http://www.alexbarrett.net/

Where I work

I am just me

Technical Skills

AVID DS 101 Certified, Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Canon XM2 Camera, amongst others

Resources / Expertise

Canon XM2 Camera, home computer with editing software

Availability

Paid Work or Collaboration

Training

2002-2005

The Surrey Institute of Art & Design,
Film and Video , BA (Hons)

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Films I wish I had made

The Passion of Joan of Arc, Ordet, Werckmeister Harmonies, Cries & Whispers, Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange, Edward Scissorhands, Gangs of New York, Solaris, Full Frontal, Three Colours Blue...the list goes on.

I left the cinema during

Nothing...you have to sit through films even if they're bad, because if you're going to insult something you still have to know what you're talking about!

Directors I love

Carl Th. Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, Bela Tarr, Martin Scorsese, Michelangelo Antonioni, Andrei Tarkovsky, Richard Linklater, Steven Soderbergh, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Guillermo del Toro, Robert Bresson, Jean Cocteau, Alexander Payne, Wong Kar-wai, Roberto Rossellini, Akira Kurosawa, Georges Melies, Jan Svankmajer, Tim Burton, Sergei Eisenstein, etc. I've missed a lot of people off and this doesn't even begin to cover it all, but you get the idea!

Actors I admire

Daniel Day-Lewis, Cate Blanchett, Jack Nicholson, Liv Ullmann, Harriet Andersson, Renee Falconetti, George Clooney, Max von Sydow, Erland Josephson, Juliette Binoche, Robert De Niro, Steve Buscemi.

My desert island discs

Anything by: The Wildhearts, Less Than Jake, The Backyard Babies, Metallica, Pantera, etc...

Books I have given my friends

Labyrinths by J.L. Borges, The Last Temptation by Nikos Kazantzakis, The Outsider by Albert Camus, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, Barry Lyndon by William Thackeray, From Hell by Alan Moore, Alias by Brian Michael Bendis.