Alessandro Mercuri is an Italian author and director, born in 1973. After studying philosophy in France, he graduated from

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,Authority Record from Bibliothèque nationale de France.
/ref> with a MFA in Live Action. In 2001 he made ''Alien American'', a documentary film about a woman who claimed to be coming from another planet. Selected at the

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and screened at the Gallery 825 of the Los Angeles Art Association, the film is “neither a fake documentary nor a real fiction that refuses the hierarchy of fact over fiction and, more usefully, shows that this phantasmagoria constitutes American ideology » according to the American critic Holly Willis.Holly Willi
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, 15/02/2002. His first essay, ''Kafka Cola, without pity or added sugar'', was published in France in 2008. Described by the critics as an “unidentified literary object”, as “a mega-modern fiction” or as a “treaty of fictional sociology”, the book was praised by

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on its release. In 2011, with Haijun Park, he founded ParisLike, an online bi-lingual creative arts magazine, devoted to the artistic, literary and scientific avant-gardes. ''ParisLike'' features video-documentaries, interviews and critical essays, both in French and in English. Among others: documentaries, interviews and recordings of performances with

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, Luc Moullet,

, Bertrand Hell, Yehezkel Ben-Ari,

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, Michel Maurer, eRikm, Pascal Perrineau,

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, Jean Levi,

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, Anita Molinero.

Bibliography

Publications in French

* ''Kafka Cola, sans pitié ni sucre ajouté'', éditions Léo Scheer, 2008 () * ''Mondo Kawaii'' in ''Écrivains en série (saison 2)'', éditions Léo Scheer, 2010 () * ''Onfray, Sade et Sarkozy - Le bon, l’obscène et le vulgaire '' in '' L'Infini n° 109'',

éditions Gallimard Éditions Gallimard (), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003, it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by G ...

, 2010 () * ''Kiss Me Deadly'' in ''Rouge déclic n°1'', éditions La Page noire, 2010 (ISSN 2104-0966) * ''Peeping Tom'', éditions Léo Scheer, 2011 () * ''Monsieur Ces Maintenants'' in ''L'Infini'' n°122, éditions Gallimard, 2013 () * ''Le dossier Alvin'', éditions art&fiction, collection Re:Pacific, 2014 () * ''Holyhood'', éditions art&fiction, collection ShushLarry, 2019 ()

Publications in English

* ''The adventures of Jesús Maria Veronica in Holyhood'' in ''ParisLike'', 2011 (ISSN 2117-4725) * ''Mad(e) in France - Land of Madness by Luc Moullet'' in ''ParisLike'', 2011 (ISSN 2117-4725) * ''Toxic Dream'', about the works of sculptor Anita Molinero in ''ParisLike'', 2012 (ISSN 2117-4725) * ''Kino-Porno-Pravda, a pornographer behind the camera'', about Raphaël Siboni documentary ''Il n’y a pas de rapport sexuel'' in ''ParisLike'', 2012 (ISSN 2117-4725) * ''Night of the Living Dead'' in ''ParisLike'', 2012 (ISSN 2117-4725) * ''Aix-voto'' in ''ParisLike'', 2013 (ISSN 2117-4725) * ''The Assassination of Apollinaire'' in ''ParisLike'', 2013 (ISSN 2117-4725) * ''Dallas, city of Hate'' in ''ParisLike'', 2013 (ISSN 2117-4725) * ''Mandrake is Mandrake'' in ''ParisLike'', 2013 (ISSN 2117-4725)

References

External links

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interview in French : D-fiction
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mercuri, Alessandro 1973 births Living people French film directors Italian film directors Italian essayists Italian male essayists Italian male non-fiction writers Postmodern writers French male essayists 21st-century French essayists 21st-century French male writers