Born in 1967, Alain Escalle works as Director since 1990 as much in France as abroad (Japan, Germany, United States, UK, Belgium, Check Republic, Ukrain, Thailand), leading in the meantime his carrier as Visual Effects Artist. He studied in Graphic Art & Design and then embarked on a degree in Cinema studies and Cinematic techniques.
He discovered, in 1991, the world of video creation as a visual effets assistant for the Peter GREENAWAY' s video dance M FOR MAN, MUSIC & MOZART.

1992 was a turning point for Escalle who started as a digital film director with his first piece, a video installation, LE RADEAU DE LA MÉDUSE exhibited in Paris to the Palais Tokyo in 1993 (an ART 3000 event) and more recently at the Museum of Art Roger Quillot of Clermont-Ferrand. Then, he direct his first short-film in 1994, FROM THE SHIPWRECK about the tragedy of the raft of the MÉDUSE (1st Prize SCAM, 3rd Prize Art category with IMAGINED).

Ever since... Escalle has carried research, into Visual Arts from differents countries and periods. This technological and aesthetics research, between traditional form of cinema and Art history, leads Alain Escalle to collaborate with others directors on hundred projects, for more than ten years to such as the commercial series NTT GROUP for Japanese Télécoms, but also UNLIMITED MIRAGE co-directed with Maurice Benayoun (1st Prize Imagined 1992 Motion Graphics category). He also collaborated as an artistic director and visual effects specialist to a string of short films including CITIES OF THE PAST: BRUGES (1st price Imagined 1995, Art category) and A VIAGEM realised in high resolution for the Portuguese pavilion exhibited at the 1998 World Exhibition in Lisbon (3rd prize Imagined 1999, Art category).

After many visits to Japan between 1993 and 2004, Escalle decided to dwell on Japanese culture and created THE TALE OF THE FLOATING WORLD. This short film, which was made of the stuff of dreams, won a raft of awards in some major world-class festivals ("GRAND PRIX" IMAGINA 2002 & preselection round at the 2003 CÉSARS (the French equivalent to the Academy awards). This film and his following video installation (DRIPPING, GROUND ZERO) approach Japanese history from a multiple viewpoint perspective to render the chaos of the Hiroshima bombing.

In 2001, Alain Escalle conceived and directed a digital installation THE SOUL AND THE STONE, a perennial fresco shown as a part of a multi-media course. The work is projected directly on the Grand Refectoire's stone wall of l’Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud.

In 2003, he directd a (one hour and thirty minutes) live projection for the JEAN-PHILIPPE GOUDE's contemporary live show ROCK DE CHAMBRE (Air Libre theatre, Rennes, Brittany – Café de la Danse, Paris – Théâtre Nationale de Bretagne, Rennes). Then in 2005, Alain Escalle met the world of the French Pop Star MYLÈNE FARMER which asked him to project THE TALE OF THE FLOATING WORLD as the first part of her 13 Paris-Bercy shows, but also to conceive all the visual effects of her pharaonic live show AVANT QUE L'OMBRE... BERCY 2006.

Escalle works as much in France as abroad, and particularly in Japan, where he directed many commissioned works such as NTT DATA, a Japanese Telecoms campain about the world of surrealist painter Salvador Dali. He lately directed the new film for the LANCÔME perfume MIRACLE, an international campain starring Diane KRUGER (Troy, My Idol), in new icon for the brand as well as the short-film MANGA MAKER to launch the new JEAN-PAUL GAULTIER' s fragrance GAULTIER PUISSANCE 2.

Escalle regularly takes part in TV projects (THE CYBER NIGHT, Canal+), Short-films and feature films or video clips for the music industry. His personal works are show on national TV channels Arte (a joint German/French channel), Canal + or France 3. He won many awards in international festivals (FCMM, Imagina, Nicograph in Japan, Ars Electronica in Austria, Monitors Awards, Locarno, etc...).

Escalle was guest of honour at the 2002 E-MAGICIENS festival, where the best juniors in digital animation compete to show their skill. Escalle presented the audience with the retrospective of his works and the whole of his digital installations. Since, others exihibitions and retrospectives of these works were organised in France, and also in several European countries.

Alain Escalle is very interested in working with professionals from other fields (dance, theatre, opera). He’s equally keen on further exploring more experimental paths, be it in the field of cinema of animation for instance. His current project, THE BOOK OF THE DEAD marks the start of a new creative project that will take shape in the coming years…