
Alexandre Poncet
Director, Composer, Film Historian
Through his production company Frenetic Arts, Alexandre Poncet produced the documentaryRay Harryhausen – Special Effects Titan by Gilles Penso, which was released in 2012. He and Penso codirected The Frankenstein Complex in 2016 and Phil Tippett: Mad Dreams And Monstersin 2019), which they later adapted into a book, Mad Dreams And Monsters: The Art of Phil Tippett And Tippett Studio, published by Cameron+Company / Abrams. Poncet is currently working with Penso on two documentaries, Walking With Animators (2026) and The Prophecy of Starship Troopers (2027). 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). In 2024, he supervised the soundtrack of Xavier Gens's Under Paris, produced by Netflix. He is currently scoring Lady Chang, Gens's next action film.
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. He is also the editor in chief of MadMovies Classic; under that banner, he has written several books and special issues on iconic film series like Alien, Predator, Jurassic Park, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Evil Dead or The Lord of the Rings.