Sound and Vision

Alix Lambert


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Alix Lambert is an artist, filmmaker, writer and a lot of other things based in Brooklyn, New York. Her feature length documentary The Mark of Cain was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and aired on Nightline. She went on to produce additional segments of Nightline as well as 7 segments for the PBS series LIFE 360. She has directed and produced two other feature length documentaries; Bayou Blue (made in collaboration with David McMahon) and Mentor. She is currently directing the feature length documentary, Goodbye, Fat Larry. She has directed numerous shorts and music videos including You As You Were for the band Shearwater on Sub Pop Records and the animated short, Tiffany.
Alix has written for a number of magazines including Stop Smiling, ArtForum, The LA Weekly, and Filmmaker Magazine, to name a few. She wrote Episode 6, season 3 of Deadwood: “A Rich Find” and was a staff writer and associate producer on John From Cinicinnati. She was also a writer on the video game Syndicate.
Alix has exhibited her work in The Venice Biennale, The Museum of Modern Art, The Georges Pompidou Center, and the Kwangju Biennnale, to name a few. She is the author of four books: Mastering The Melon, The Silencing, Russian Prison Tattoos, and Crime. For theater, she has written and directed Crime, USA, which has been staged at Joe’s Pub in NYC, and the Cairns Festival in Australia and Crime, USA, Hartford, which was staged at Real Art Ways. Alix co-founded and is co-artistic director of The Brooklyn International Theater Company (with Nelson George and Danny Simmons). She has conceived of and directed two original series for MOCAtv; Crime: The Animated Series and Ambiance Man. She recently produced a segments for This American Life, and Theory of Everything.
She received grants from the NEA, NYFA and The Roberts Foundation. Alix has received residencies and fellowships from: The MacDowell Colony, Headlands, The Studios of Key West, The McColl Center, The MIT Media Lab in Cambridge and was The Booth Tarkington Writer in Residence at Butler University for the 2014-15 school year. She is currently developing her original animated series Prison Zoo. She is also working on an upcoming graphic novel to be released on Hat & Beard Press based on her experiences in courtrooms and her sketches.
Brian visited Alix at her Brooklyn home where she is working on her graphic novel and they spoke about crime, technology, the environment, indirock and a lot more.
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