Alison McAlpine
Alison McAlpine began her career as a published poet. Discovering theatre in Ireland, she soon after founded a performance company and wrote and directed music-theatre works. In 2008, she made her first film, Second Sight, a non-fiction ghost story featuring the last generation of Gaelic storytellers on Scotland's Isle of Skye. Cielo, her first feature film released in 2017, is a love poem to the night sky. Blending and blurring the boundaries between documentary and fiction, McAlpine’s films are immersive, sensorial and cinematic. Her work explores hybrid, innovative approaches to narrative and what a story can be; her intimate connection with her subjects reflects a sense of contagious wonder, her camera feels invisible; the musicality and associations of sounds and images always play a key role. Alison is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow currently working on several new films and writings.
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Cielo
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The Atacama Desert in Chile is known as the refuge of astronomers: the sky observed there at night is breathtaking. This sky feeds the research of the scientists who work in the observatories; it also feeds, for generations, the imagination and the legends of the local communities. For the deep mysteries that the universe presents to us are what science and belief have in common. A true love po...
Cielo
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The Atacama Desert in Chile is known as the refuge of astronomers: the sky observed there at night is breathtaking. This sky feeds the research of the scientists who work in the observatories; it also feeds, for generations, the imagination and the legends of the local communities. For the deep mysteries that the universe presents to us are what science and belief have in common. A true love po...
