Alex Karpovsky

Director

“Remember to have fun and remember that we’re all dead in about three seconds.”

Biography

Alex Karpovsky studied visual ethnography at Oxford University before wasting the next few years of his life trying to become the next Andy Kaufman. He now acts and makes movies. Alex’s award-winning debut feature, THE HOLE STORY, earned him a slot in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 new faces of independent film and a plastic key to a small city in Northern Minnesota. His subsequent two films (WOODPECKER & TRUST US, THIS IS ALL MADE UP) premiered at SXSW and have lassoed in several fiberglass trophies, polyester ribbons and miscellaneous ceramics. As an actor, Alex has had leading roles in feature-length films that have shown at the Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, Los Angeles, and SXSW film festivals. He is also the voice of numerous Russian gangsters in Grand Theft Auto IV. Alex delights in moonscapes, balloons, taking walks (solo), pistachios and playing basketball with urban teenagers. —Alexkarpovsky.com

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Aflwydd

30Dec12

The Hole Story is hilarious. Can we change him to a director? The trailer for his new film Red Flag looks great and I look forward to being able to see it. No way it will be aired in the UK I suppose unless be blows up in a Lena Dunham manner. Hopefully that happens.