Alex Morelli

Alex Morelli is an artist, filmmaker, and educator based in Chicago, IL. Drawing on personal, observational, and archival practices, he makes films that examine intergenerational memory, carceral landscapes, and the relationship between place and identity. His shorts have screened in RiverRun, Indie Grits, Athens International Film and Video Festival, and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. He was a 2017-18 Harvard Film Study Center Fellow, a 2019 Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow, a 2021 LEF-CIFF Fellow, and a 2021 Gotham Documentary Feature Lab participant. In 2022, Filmmaker Magazine named him one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film. He has taught filmmaking in university and community settings and frequently works as a cinematographer and editor.