Alessandro Mercuri

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Alessandro Mercuri is a French-Italian author and director, born in 1973.

After studying philosophy in France, he graduated from CalArts with a MFA in Live Action.

In 2001 he made Alien American, a documentary film about a woman who claimed to be coming from another planet. Selected at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and screened at the Gallery 825 of the Los Angeles Art Association, the film is “neither a fake documentary nor a real fiction that refuses the hierarchy of fact over fiction and, more usefully, shows that this phantasmagoria constitutes American ideology » according to the American critic Holly Willis.

His first essay, Kafka Cola, without pity or added sugar, was published in France in 2008. Described by the critics as an “unidentified literary object”, as “a mega-modern fiction” or as a “treaty of fictional sociology”, the book was praised by Philippe Sollers on its release.