Alexandre Poncet
Director, Composer, Film Historian
Alexandre Poncet co-founded the production company Frenetic Arts in 2007 and produced the documentary Ray Harryhausen – Special Effects Titan by Gilles Penso, which was released in 2012. He worked with Gilles Penso again on the award-winning documentary Creature Designers – The Frankenstein Complex (2016). Poncet and Penso concluded their « Monster Trilogy » with Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams And Monsters (2019), which in 2022 was adapted into a book, Mad Dreams And Monsters: The Art of Phil Tippett And Tippett Studio, published by Cameron+Company / Abrams Books.As a journalist, Alexandre Poncet has worked with the renowned French magazine Mad Movies for twenty years, and he is currently the editor in chief of the special issues. Over the past decade, he wrote books on iconic film series like Alien, Predator, Jurassic Park, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Evil Dead, Mad Max or The Lord of the Rings.As a composer, Alexandre Poncet scored Sacha Feiner’s Un monde meilleur (2012) and Last Door South (winner of the « Best Animated Short » Magritte in 2016). He also scored Derrière le masque des super-héros (2013), a documentary produced by Disney Channel. In 2014 and 2017, he composed original themes for The Art of Marvel and The Art of DC exhibitions by Art Ludique – Le Musée in Paris. In 2024, he art-directed the original soundtrack of Under Paris by Xavier Gens, which attracted more than 95 million viewers on Netflix.Between 2021 and 2023, Alexandre Poncet curated several exhibitions, including The Art of Batman: The Hero With A Thousand Faces in collaboration with acclaimed filmmaker Jay Oliva, and Magnifying Pop-Culture: The Art of Drew Struzan in collaboration with the Struzan family.Among other projects, Alexandre Poncet is currently working on Walking With Animators and The Prophecy of Starship Troopers, two documentary features which have entered their post-production phase.