Biography

Alain Escalle has been working as a director since 1990 both in France and abroad oscillating between personal work and collaborations on different media (Spectacles Vivants, Installations Muséales, Advertisements or Cinema). After studying applied arts and Cinema, in 1991 he discovered the world of digital creation as an infographic assistant on the video dance M FORMAN, MUSIC and Mozart by Peter Greenaway. He made his first short film in 1994, D'APRÉS LE NAUFRAGE having the subject of the drama of the Medusa radle (1st SCAM Prize for the best digital work, 3rd Prize category IMAGINA 94, Exposition IMAGE EN SCENE Art 3000 at the Palais de Tokyo 93). After many business trips to Japan (from 1993 to 2006) where he worked regularly, he decided to deepen this culture with the film LE CONTE DU MONDE FLOTTANT, an award-winning short film oner film in several international festivals (Grand Prix IMAGINA 2002 - prescient in the CÉSARS of French Cinema in 2003). This film and the subsequent installation, DRIPPING, GROUND 'ERO', is an apocalyptic and multiple view of the history of Japan and the advent of the bomb in Hiroshima. After making the images for the show "Rock De Chambre" by JEAN-PHILIPPE GOUDE, Alain Escalle made the first part of the shows of MYLENE FARMER in Bercy in 2006 and performed all the stage images of the Tournée 2006 and of the Tour 2009, as well as two of the Music Videos of the singer: C'EST DANS L'AIR in 2009 and LEILA in 2010. In 2006, a long creative and research work began, which led in 2013 to the film LE LIVRE DES MORTS new dream trip on the ghosts of human history. An imaginary melting film on the theme of extermination camps in Poland, the film is screened on two occasions during the Holocaust commemorations in Tel Aviv. (Selected Official Festival International du Short Film de Clermont-Ferrand 2013, Grand Prix ATHENA Athens Animfest 2014, Best experimental Film "Grand Prix" FLICKERS Rhodes Island 2013). A new version of the film LE LIVRE DES MARDTS . 2018 edition will then be held. Since its inception, he has developed a work of visual research, covering the history of the world and that of the arts. Like the Japanese advertisement NTT DATA 97 around the universe of the painter Salvador Dali. More recently in 2014 with his DA VINCI PROJECT around the work of Leonardo da Vinci and the painters of the renaissance. Alain Escalle participated in exhibitions and museum installations such as the Fresque digitale L'EME and LA PIERRE that he made for the Abbey of Fontevraud, which became "Villa Médicis" du numérique in 2001, the installation FANT-ME D'AMOUR in 2005 for the Château de Talcy, as well as the exhibition "Le livre made its cinema" at the Musée des Manuscrits. This technological and pictorial research, between cinema, traditional animation and art history, leads Alain Escalle to collaborate during the first ten years of career with multiple directors, on creation projects, fiction or advertisements, such as the NTT GROUP series for Japanese telecoms or as artistic director and creator of images and visual effects A VIAGEMof short films such as CITIES ANTERILESA case of the Universal Exhibition in Lisbon in 1998 (3rd Imagina Prize 1999, Art category, VFX Ars Electronica Prize 1998). His work has been the subject of retrospectives (E-magiciiens 2002, Musée d'Art Roger Quillot in Clermont-Ferrand in 2003) and photographic exhibitions. He also participated in school junks or film festivals. Alain Escalle has won numerous awards at international festivals (Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in 2002 and 2013, Festival FLICKERS Rhodes Island in 2013, Cannes Short Film Corner 2014, Sundance International Film Festival 2002, Aspen Film Festival 1998, Montreal New Cinema Festival, e 2001, Imagina Monaco 2002, Niccograph in Japan, Ars Electronica in Austria, Monitors. Today, Alain Escalle focuses his work as an artist on personal works of short and medium films, photographic works or video installations.
- IMDb mini biography by: Christian_Wolfgang_Barth

The film "The tale of the floating world" won the prestigious Grand Prix at the 2002 Imagina festival, competing alongside major global productions like Shrek and The Lord of the Rings.