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Alex de Campi: Independent Film Director and Comics Artist

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Alex De Campi's Highly Original Short Films and Graphic Novels

Here's a few of the extremely creative music videos and indie film shorts directed by American-born British alien Alex de Campi, who "believes that the pen is mightier than the sword (and much easier to get through airport security)."

Her video for Thomas Truax's "Why Dogs Howl at the Moon" (see below) was nominated for best video of 2007 by is this music? magazine.

UPDATE Nov '10: Alex de Campi is an innovator, and has been doing graphic novels and comics for several years. Now she's pushing the new publishing frontier by releasing her Valentine graphic novel / serial on multiple platforms at once, from Kindle to iPhone. However, this page is mostly a fun showcase of some of her work as an independent film director.

Copyright notice: The eye is © 2005 Alex de Campi. It is here on loan. I can't give out her eyeball, since you never know when she might ask for it back.

From Director Alex de Campi

A Selection of Artfully Unusual Online Extravaganzas

There are many more where these came from! Once you've viewed a few, you'll probably want to watch them all.

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The Puppini Sisters, "Jilted" (dir: Alex de Campi) 1 point

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Thomas Truax, "Why Dogs Howl" (Dir: Alex de Campi) 0 points

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Maxfield - "Stucklike" (Dir: Alex de Campi) 0 points

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Des O'Connor, "Little Miss Dysmorphia" (dir. Alex de Campi) 0 points

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White Mischief: Kunta Kinte "Stress" 0 points

Interview with Alex

Link: Interview with Alex De Campi by Comics Bulletin magazine after her graphic novel Smoke was nominated for a 2006 Eisner Award for best limited series.

Alex De Campi News Search

What's Alex working on now?

MUSIC VIDEO: CANDLELIGHT RED - 'She's Got The Look'
The video was shot in Stanley Kubrick's family warehouse by indie video aficionado Alex de Campi (Art Brut, Los Campesinos!). The video twists the song into a horror story of a lonely teen boy who dreams of finding a girl who ends up finding him, ...
Candlelight Red Release Video For “She's Got the Look”
The video was shot in Stanley Kubrick's family warehouse by indie video aficionado Alex de Campi (Art Brut, Los Campesinos!). The video twists the song into a horror story of a lonely teen boy who dreams of finding a girl who ends up finding him, ...
Cartoonist Christine Larsen debuts short story collection
Larsen is probably best known for the online comic Valentine she created with Alex de Campi, and she's also contributed stories to Ape Entertainment's Shrek and Kung Fu Panda series. Her work is a really inventive menagerie of styles that reminds me of ...
CANDLELIGHT RED Interview
The upcoming video for your single, "She's Got The Look," was shot in Stanley Kubrick's family warehouse by indie video aficionado Alex de Campi. Tell me about the video, what can we expect? Jeremy: It was shot with a camera called the Red Epic, ...
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Spotlight: Smoke by Alex De Campi

Illustrator: Igor Kordey

Smoke

Smoke

by: Alex de Campi, Igor Kordey

Amazon Price: $89.99 (as of 05/28/2012)Buy Now

Nominee of the 2006 Eisner Award for best limited series. Bald summary: "In a futuristic London run by a government both morally and financially bankrupt, ex-soldier Rupert Cain signed his own deal with the devil. He works for the government as an assassin, in exchange for his girlfriend and her father being kept safe from harm. But when the father is murdered anyway, Cain has to pick up the pieces of his shattered life and cope with everything he walked away from three years ago. Meanwhile, London descends into crisis as an unusual terrorist group kidnaps the visiting OPEC president and ransoms him for quite peculiar demands."

Alex de Campi Links

Where Does She Lurk?

I first met Alex back in 1979, when she was already on the way to becoming a good writer. (I seem to recall her packing a pretty good punch with a wooden sword, too.) She was vividly creative, smart, and marched to a different kettle of fish. From what I can see, that hasn't changed.
Alex de Campi's Videos
Alex de Campi's YouTube channel, 30+ excellent videos and growing.
alexdecampi.com
Writer/filmmaker Alex de Campi's website, including blog, an overview of her work in comics and film, and other jottings.
Lot 49 Films
Homepage of Alex's movie studio.

Alex de Campi Graphic Novels

And now for something completely different, to quote Monty Python (which I happen to know Alex watched at a young age -- this may explain a few things).

Alex also co-writes comics and books for children and teens. She has even co-written some graphic novels in French, but the US Amazon doesn't have them, presumably on the assumption that Alex is the only American on the planet to have successfully learned French.
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  • JaguarJulie Jun 11, 2010 @ 6:51 am | delete
    That is a fabulous quote, my dear, that he "believes that the pen is mightier than the sword (and much easier to get through airport security)."
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Alex De Campi's Valentine Graphic Novel 

Kindle Edition

Valentine: Book One (English) (Comic Book / Graphic Novel)

Valentine: Book One (English) (Comic Book / Graphic Novel)

by: Alex de Campi, Christine Larsen

Amazon Price: (as of 05/28/2012)Buy Now

Alex de Campi was writing incredible fantasy stories and drawing great adventures when she was 9 years old. I remember them. Heck, I can still quote part of a poem she wrote at that age. I won't embarrass her or break copyright by quoting it here; all I can say is: she was talented then, and she grew up to become a writer an artist with a lively imagination, a sense of style I envied and envy. She has channeled it into these amazing graphic novels.

Okay, so I'm biased. But I'm buying this as a Christmas gift for a few folks.

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