Alexandre O. Philippe (b. Geneva) holds an MFA in dramatic writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, but he decided to pursue documentary film direction, with the goal of recording and investigating our current global pop culture. This thematic tendency can be seen in one of the first "digital democratic documentaries," The People vs. George Lucas (2010), in which he elaborates with ample exaggeration on fan disenchantment with George Lucas. He focused on the theme of celebrity in his subsequent documentary portrait The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus (2012), taking up the hubbub surrounding eight-armed Paul, who became an international superstar thanks to reliably predicting the results of a world soccer championship. In 2014 he chose the seemingly evergreen zombie phenomenon as the subject of another entertaining pop culture probe: the feature-length documentary Doc of the Dead.
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