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Alexander Ingham Brooke
Alexander Ingham Brooke ( born 1987 -) is a British Italian Film Director and Photographer.
His film and photographic works play within the field of documentary, fashion film and Italian cinema, recurring themes in his work are image theory, identity, family, morality and death
He is best known for his cinema documentary Moroloja narrated by Italian documentarian Cecilia Mangini, the film revisits the cast of a 1960's film 'Stendali' filmed in the town of Martano,
where a group of women (prefiche -funeral mourners) practiced an Ancient Greek death rite, the film is an elegy to the women of Southern Italy and the 'Morolojas' (songs to the dead) that they sang.
Moroloja was premiered at Raindance Film Festival , American Natural History Museum and shown at
His films have been included in screening, exhibition and film festivals internationally.
Early life and career
Alexander Ingham Brooke born 19th of November 1987 in London Westminster on the night of the kings cross fire to Anglo Italian Parents. He spent his early years between Naples and London, from the early age of 16 he began making his first documentaries and live action films at the Abingdon School film unit, mentored by award winning documentarian Michael Grigsby who founded the unit supported by the British Film Institute.
Ingham Brooke went on to study Fine Art at
and blind soldiers. For his final show he presented a split screen work named 'coloured ground' featuring two marginal communities and hypnotic imagery: the first film focused on a group of children born into the invented language of Esperanto, the second film focused on a bow and arrow contest that a community of 90 blind soldiers contended in. The film was an artist's exploration into identity and sentimentality for 'places and images that no longer exist' .
The work was purchased as part of the permanent collection of central saint martins and screened at Frieze Art Fair as part of Frieze Projects later that year.
After graduating he shot a series of short films with cinematographer Christopher Hughes who worked with Derek Jarman on a number of films (The last of England, Aria 1987, The Garden )
