Alison McAlpine
Directing
Biography
Alison McAlpine is a Canadian filmmaker. She began her career as a published poet, inspired by family tales and the oral traditions of British Columbia where she grew up. Discovering theatre in Ireland, she soon after founded a performance company and wrote and directed music-theatre. She was then encouraged towards cinema by her ensemble.
Known For
In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe. A sensorial, cinematic exploration of what a story can be.
perfectly a strangeness
A non-fiction ghost story, featuring the last generation of Gaelic storytellers on Scotland's Isle of Skye.
Second Sight
The first feature from Alison McAlpine is a dialogue with the heavens—in this case, the heavens above the Andes and the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, where she alights on the desert- and mountain-dwelling astronomers, fishermen, miners, and cowboys who live their lives with reverence and awe for the skies.