Alexander Porter is an Emmy-award winning immersive director, documentarian and educator. He uses experimental photographic techniques such as 3D scanning and volumetric capture to make complex concepts tangible, such as video game addiction, cyber warfare, urbanism, and ecology. He strives to apply these often alienating techniques to important and personal topics such as environmental justice, mental health, and supernatural experiences.

Out of his practice he founded a leading immersive studio and created the first and most widely used software for volumetric video production. He is recognized for defining the discipline of Volumetric Filmmaking through immersive productions, and creating virtual and augmented reality creativity tools.

Recent credits include Strata (Transmediale, 2023), Truth or Consequences (Rotterdam, 2021), The Changing Same (Sundance, 2021), Blackout (Tribeca Storyscapes, 2017), and the speculative Styles & Customs VR installation with DIS (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2017).  Alexander was nominated for a Cinema Eye Honors Award for Alex Gibney’s Zero Days (Berlin, 2016), won an Emmy for Zero Days VR (Sundance, 2017), other credits include Love Child (Sundance, 2014), CLOUDS (Sundance, 2014). 

Alexander has taught at NYU’s ITP, SVA, Johns Hopkins, spoken at MIT, Museum of Art & Design, Carnegie Museum of Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Eyebeam among others. He was an inaugural member at New Inc and is a current resident at ONX Onassis Studio.