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Alex Cardy is an award-winning Australian Director of Photography who works across films, television, documentaries, moving-image installations and expanded online projects. She has a passion for hybrid filmmaking and working between narrative and documentary projects.

Alex recently completed production on the feature documentary THE DEFENDERS directed by Matthew Bate, for Sweetshop & Green and Amazon Prime, along with a block of the young adult television series YEAR OF for Roadshow Rough Diamond and Stan, directed by Taylor Ferguson and Jess Tuckwell.

Her short films have been selected at top-tier festivals, including; Toronto International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival and Melbourne International Film Festival and her work has premiered on Nowness and appeared at Outfest and RISING Festival. Alex’s collaboration with director Jessica Barclay Lawton has resulted in a trio of shorts; LIVING ROOM, ZEF and THE SWEETNESS. Her other shorts include WE’RE NOT HERE directed by Bonnie Moir and YOU AND ME, BEFORE AND AFTER directed by Madeleine Gottlieb.

Alex was recently awarded the Gold Cinematography Award for Documentary at both the 2021 and 2020 Australian Cinematography Society Awards for Victoria & Tasmania, as well as the Bronze Award for Art, Innovation & Specialised Cinematography in 2021.

Alex has worked on content and commercials for brands such as Nike, Google, Champion, Bonds, Jeanswest, Lee and Land Rover.

Outside of narrative and commercial work, Alex has collaborated with iconic Australian contemporary artists on their moving-image installations and film adaptations, including Patricia Piccinini’s WE WALK TOGETHER and Eugenia Lim’s ON DEMAND and DESTINY. She is also one of the founders of Sissy Screens, a digital magazine dedicated to queer screen culture supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.

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Cameras
Alexa Mini LF Kit
RED Epic-M Kit
 
 
Lens
Leica-R Super Speed Lens Kit
 
 
Follow Focus
Arri MFF-1
 
 
Wireless
Teradek Bolt XT 500 Kit
 
 
Monitors
Small HD Handheld Director Split Kit (7ich)
 
 
Mattebox & Filters
Chroziel MB 450R2
Nisi ND Filter Kit
 
 
Sound (Basic)
Zoom H4n
Sony UTX-B03 Radio Mic Kit
Rhode NTG-3
 
 
Other
Underwater Housing (RED Epic)
Cinesaddle
Arri Shoulder Rig
Manfrotto Tripod
 
 
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Destiny (Gallery Installation)

DESTINY (2021), is a moving-image work made in collaboration with on-demand or ‘gig economy’ workers, including rideshare drivers, food delivery riders and cleaners, that explores personal and global experiences of the platform economy.

Lead Artist & Director: Eugenia Lim
Co-Creators: Lara Thoms, Mish Grigor
Producer & 1st AD: Alexandra George
Worker-Performers: Wasay, Cher Tan, Jessica Wen, Mirza Baig
Composer: Corin Ileto
Director of Photography: Alex Cardy
Choreographer: Amrita Hepi
Production Designer: Imo Walsh
Offline Editor: Christine Cheung
Colourist: Dan Stonehouse, Crayon
Sound Designer: Thom Kellar

1st AC: Harrison Byrne
Drone Ops: Radar Kane, Josh Labita
B-Cam Op: Bonita Carzino
Steadicam Op & Gaffer: Han Palmer
Best Person: Joel Green
Wardrobe Designer: Gemma Baxter
Graphic Designer & Project Admin: Rebecca McCauley
Set Fabricator: Stefan Polastri
Art Dept Assistant: Karli Laredo
2nd AD: Priya Pavri
Interpreter: Ching Ching Ho
Translation: Wasay, Eugenia Lim
Sound Recordist: Alex Wakefield
Post Sound Facility: Folklore Sound & Music
Online Editor: Chris Tomkins
Crayon Producers: Laura Hesse, Meg Doyle


Premiered at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art as part of the Who’s Afraid of Public Space? exhibition
Winner of the Incinerator Art Award: Art For Social Change

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The Defenders (Feature Documentary)

The gripping true story of how a former Australian football captain and a ragtag team of social media warriors, challenged two monarchies, a military junta and the world's richest and most influential sporting body FIFA, to rescue the life of a fellow player and save the soul of football.

Production Company: Sweetshop & Green
Producer: Alice Bergin & Gal Greenspan
Assosicate Producer: Kate Laurie
Director: Matt Bate
DoP: Alex Cardy
Editor: Bryan Mason & David Scarborough
Colourist: Dan Stonehouse, Crayon



Premiered at Sydney International Film Festival 2023
Distributed by Amazon Prime

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Zef (Short Film)

ZEF follows a 21-year-old genderqueer topless meat raffle worker through a collage of moments, sensations and memories; exploring gender, love and sexuality. An unfiltered snapshot of our desire for intimacy in its oscillating forms.

Director & Producer: Jessica Barclay Lawton
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Editor: Delaney Murphy
Sound Designer & Mixer: Lachlan Harris
Dialogue Editor: Jennifer Leonforte
Colourist: Nicholas Hower
Music: Alex Cobb, Celer, Keith Fullerton Whitman
Thank you: Nowness, Marley Hansen, Catapult Casting, Zak Hamer, Jenna Eriksen & Amery Johnston


Winner ‘Best Documentary’, ReelGood Film Festival
Winner Gold Award (VIC / TAS), Australian Cinematographers Society
Short of the Year (Winter), Special Jury Mention
Award Winner, Across the Globe Film Festival
Online Premiere Nowness
Aesthetica Short Film Festival
ReelGood Film Festival
Promofest Short of the Year - Winter
Cinematica #3
Himachal Short Film Festival
Usak Short Film Festival
Skiptown Film Fest, LA
Greenwich Village Film Festival
Across the Globe Film Festival



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We Travel Together (Gallery Installation)

Lead Artist: Patricia Piccinini
Director: Rhys Graham
Director of Photography: Alex Cardy
Editing & Visual Effects: Drome Studio
Colourist: Daniel Stonehouse (Crayon)


Premiered as part of 'A Miracle Constantly Repeating Itself' exhibition for Rising Festival 2021 in the new Flinders Street Station Ballroom

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Year Of (TV Drama)

Year Of takes place in the same universe as the hit Stan Original Series Bump and is set in and around the senior years of high school. The series exploring the liminal time between childhood and adulthood and the renegotiations with adults that it brings.

Production Company: Roadshow Rough Diamond
Producers: John Edwards & Dan Edwards
Series Casting: Kirsty McGregor
Series Production Design: Natalie Beak
Starring: Danielle McCormack, Sophia Wright-Mendelsohn, Joshua Hewson, Samuel El Rahi, Ira (Samuel Dawson)
Series Writers: Jessica Tuckwell, Enoch Mailangi, Kelsey Munro, Ayeesha Ash, Eddie Diamandi, Emily Havea, Eleanor Kirk & Zoe Norton Lodge

Episode 8
Director: Taylor Ferguson
DoP: Alex Cardy

Episode 9
Director: Jessica Tuckwell
DoP: Alex Cardy

Episode 10 (Season Finale)
Director: Jessica Tuckwell
DoP: Alex Cardy
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Container (Short Film)

The habitual monotony of an empty-container storage site is disrupted when a container full of valuable consumer goods is accidentally dropped off.

Director: Jacintho Muiños
Producer: Hayley Surgenor
DoP: Alex Cardy
Colourist: Abe Wynn
Sound Design: Lachlan Harris


Premiered at Sydney International Film Festival 2021

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You & Me Before & After (Short Film)

Hannah (33) and Rachel (30) are Jewish sisters with baggage. Today, they have agreed to get their first tattoos together.

Starring: Yael Stone, Emily Barclay, Tracy Mann
Director: Madeleine Gottlieb
Writer: Madeleine Gottlieb
Producers: Liam Heyen + Cyna Strachan
DOP: Alex Cardy
Production Designer: Diva Abrahamian
Costume Designer: Verity Mackey
Editor: Christine Cheung


Best Achievement in Acting, St Kilda Film Festival 2022
Best Screenplay, Heart of Gold Short Film Festival 2022
Toronto International Film Festival 2021
Melbourne International Film Festival 2021
Flickerfest 2022
Aspen Shortsfest 2022
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2022
St Kilda Film Festival 2022
Nominated St Kilda Film Festival Best Achievement in Screenplay 2022
Nominated AACTA Award for Best Short Film 2021
Nominated Best Short Film, Heart of Gold Short Film Festival 2022
Nominated Best Australian Film, Heart of Gold Short Film Festival 2022
Nominated Australian Directors Guild Award 2022

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Multiply (Feature Documentary)

Production Company: Daybreak Films
Director: Rhys Graham
DoP: Alex Cardy
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Bender (Short Film)

Cinematographer, Director & Producer: Alex Cardy
Co-Director: Bonnie Moir
Producer: Jessica Barclay Lawton & Tali Polichtuk
Production Company: Sissy Screens
Cast: Lucas Pittaway, Matt Hickmott & Josh Lavery
Colourist: Kali Bateman
Sound Design: Lachlan Harris
Music From: Lakutis

Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2020
St Kilda Film Festival 2020
Rainbow Cinema Awards Finalist 2020

Link to full film
available on request.
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On Demand (Art Installation)

Director, Writer, Editor & Performer: Eugenia Lim
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Choreography: Nat Cursip
Composer: Becky Sui Zhen
Colourist: Chris Tompkins

When installed, this is a pedal-powered work. The viewer is invited to sit on a bicycle to cycle and work up a sweat to activate the work.

Made in collaboration with workers from the gig economy, On-demand is a pedal-powered video work that considers work, labour, solidarity and movement (political and physical) in the neoliberal present. Living and working in 2019 brings precarity, competition and mobility – both for independent artists and ‘independent contractors’ of the gig economy. Self-exploitation, low wages and zero-hour contracts are shared terrain for many workers in both the cultural and service sectors.
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Living Room (Short Film)

Writers: Rhys Mitchell & Jessica Barclay Lawton
Director: Jessica Barclay Lawton
Producers: Jessica Barclay Lawton & Rhys Mitchell
Line Producer: Rumi Tominaga
Director of Photography: Alex Cardy
Sound Designer & Composer: Gunay Demirci
Editor: Paul Rowe

Melbourne International Film Festival 2019
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2019
Flickerfest 2020
Newport Beach Film Festival 2020
Cannes Court Métrage - Short Film Corner 2020
Deep Focus Film Festival – Finalist 2020
Vertigo Film Fest 2020
St Kilda film Festival 2020

Awarded 'Best Cinematography' at Vertigo Film Festival 2020

Link to full film
available on request.
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We're Not Here (Short Film)

Director: Bonnie Moir (Exit Films)
Producer: Benjamin Rigby
Written By: Adam Spellicy
Director of Photography: Alex Cardy
Starring: Benjamin Rigby & Pekka Strang
Editor: Maria Papoutsis
Underwater Unit Cinematography: Darren Crawford
Sound Design & Mix: Lachlan Harris
Colour Grade: Kali Bateman

Melbourne International Film Festival 2019
Outfest Los Angeles International Film Festival 21019
Dallas International Film Festival 2020
Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival 2020
St Kilda Film Festival 2020
Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2020

Link to full film
available on request.
+61 450 179 003
alex@alexcardy.com
© 2024
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Destiny (Gallery Installation)

DESTINY (2021), is a moving-image work made in collaboration with on-demand or ‘gig economy’ workers, including rideshare drivers, food delivery riders and cleaners, that explores personal and global experiences of the platform economy.

Lead Artist & Director: Eugenia Lim
Co-Creators: Lara Thoms, Mish Grigor
Producer & 1st AD: Alexandra George
Worker-Performers: Wasay, Cher Tan, Jessica Wen, Mirza Baig
Composer: Corin Ileto
Director of Photography: Alex Cardy
Choreographer: Amrita Hepi
Production Designer: Imo Walsh
Offline Editor: Christine Cheung
Colourist: Dan Stonehouse, Crayon
Sound Designer: Thom Kellar

1st AC: Harrison Byrne
Drone Ops: Radar Kane, Josh Labita
B-Cam Op: Bonita Carzino
Steadicam Op & Gaffer: Han Palmer
Best Person: Joel Green
Wardrobe Designer: Gemma Baxter
Graphic Designer & Project Admin: Rebecca McCauley
Set Fabricator: Stefan Polastri
Art Dept Assistant: Karli Laredo
2nd AD: Priya Pavri
Interpreter: Ching Ching Ho
Translation: Wasay, Eugenia Lim
Sound Recordist: Alex Wakefield
Post Sound Facility: Folklore Sound & Music
Online Editor: Chris Tomkins
Crayon Producers: Laura Hesse, Meg Doyle


Premiered at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art as part of the Who’s Afraid of Public Space? exhibition
Winner of the Incinerator Art Award: Art For Social Change




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The Defenders (Feature Documentary)

The gripping true story of how a former Australian football captain and a ragtag team of social media warriors, challenged two monarchies, a military junta and the world's richest and most influential sporting body FIFA, to rescue the life of a fellow player and save the soul of football.

Production Company: Sweetshop & Green
Producer: Alice Bergin & Gal Greenspan
Assosicate Producer: Kate Laurie
Director: Matt Bate
DoP: Alex Cardy
Editor: Bryan Mason & David Scarborough
Colourist: Dan Stonehouse, Crayon



Premiered at Sydney International Film Festival 2023
Distributed by Amazon Prime




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Zef (Short Film)

ZEF follows a 21-year-old genderqueer topless meat raffle worker through a collage of moments, sensations and memories; exploring gender, love and sexuality. An unfiltered snapshot of our desire for intimacy in its oscillating forms.

Director & Producer: Jessica Barclay Lawton
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Editor: Delaney Murphy
Sound Designer & Mixer: Lachlan Harris
Dialogue Editor: Jennifer Leonforte
Colourist: Nicholas Hower
Music: Alex Cobb, Celer, Keith Fullerton Whitman
Thank you: Nowness, Marley Hansen, Catapult Casting, Zak Hamer, Jenna Eriksen & Amery Johnston


Winner ‘Best Documentary’, ReelGood Film Festival
Winner Gold Award (VIC / TAS), Australian Cinematographers Society
Short of the Year (Winter), Special Jury Mention
Award Winner, Across the Globe Film Festival
Online Premiere Nowness
Aesthetica Short Film Festival
ReelGood Film Festival
Promofest Short of the Year - Winter
Cinematica #3
Himachal Short Film Festival
Usak Short Film Festival
Skiptown Film Fest, LA
Greenwich Village Film Festival
Across the Globe Film Festival






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We Travel Together (Gallery Installation)

Lead Artist: Patricia Piccinini
Director: Rhys Graham
Director of Photography: Alex Cardy
Editing & Visual Effects: Drome Studio
Colourist: Daniel Stonehouse (Crayon)


Premiered as part of 'A Miracle Constantly Repeating Itself' exhibition for Rising Festival 2021 in the new Flinders Street Station Ballroom




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Year Of (TV Drama)

Year Of takes place in the same universe as the hit Stan Original Series Bump and is set in and around the senior years of high school. The series exploring the liminal time between childhood and adulthood and the renegotiations with adults that it brings.

Production Company: Roadshow Rough Diamond
Producers: John Edwards & Dan Edwards
Series Casting: Kirsty McGregor
Series Production Design: Natalie Beak
Starring: Danielle McCormack, Sophia Wright-Mendelsohn, Joshua Hewson, Samuel El Rahi, Ira (Samuel Dawson)
Series Writers: Jessica Tuckwell, Enoch Mailangi, Kelsey Munro, Ayeesha Ash, Eddie Diamandi, Emily Havea, Eleanor Kirk & Zoe Norton Lodge

Episode 8
Director: Taylor Ferguson
DoP: Alex Cardy

Episode 9
Director: Jessica Tuckwell
DoP: Alex Cardy

Episode 10 (Season Finale)
Director: Jessica Tuckwell
DoP: Alex Cardy


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Container (Short Film)

The habitual monotony of an empty-container storage site is disrupted when a container full of valuable consumer goods is accidentally dropped off.

Director: Jacintho Muiños
Producer: Hayley Surgenor
DoP: Alex Cardy
Colourist: Abe Wynn
Sound Design: Lachlan Harris


Premiered at Sydney International Film Festival 2021




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You & Me Before & After (Short Film)

Hannah (33) and Rachel (30) are Jewish sisters with baggage. Today, they have agreed to get their first tattoos together.

Starring: Yael Stone, Emily Barclay, Tracy Mann
Director: Madeleine Gottlieb
Writer: Madeleine Gottlieb
Producers: Liam Heyen + Cyna Strachan
DOP: Alex Cardy
Production Designer: Diva Abrahamian
Costume Designer: Verity Mackey
Editor: Christine Cheung


Best Achievement in Acting, St Kilda Film Festival 2022
Best Screenplay, Heart of Gold Short Film Festival 2022
Toronto International Film Festival 2021
Melbourne International Film Festival 2021
Flickerfest 2022
Aspen Shortsfest 2022
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2022
St Kilda Film Festival 2022
Nominated St Kilda Film Festival Best Achievement in Screenplay 2022
Nominated AACTA Award for Best Short Film 2021
Nominated Best Short Film, Heart of Gold Short Film Festival 2022
Nominated Best Australian Film, Heart of Gold Short Film Festival 2022
Nominated Australian Directors Guild Award 2022




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Multiply (Feature Documentary)

Production Company: Daybreak Films
Director: Rhys Graham
DoP: Alex Cardy


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Bender (Short Film)

Cinematographer, Director & Producer: Alex Cardy
Co-Director: Bonnie Moir
Producer: Jessica Barclay Lawton & Tali Polichtuk
Production Company: Sissy Screens
Cast: Lucas Pittaway, Matt Hickmott & Josh Lavery
Colourist: Kali Bateman
Sound Design: Lachlan Harris
Music From: Lakutis

Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2020
St Kilda Film Festival 2020
Rainbow Cinema Awards Finalist 2020

Link to full film
available on request.


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On Demand (Art Installation)

Director, Writer, Editor & Performer: Eugenia Lim
Cinematographer: Alex Cardy
Choreography: Nat Cursip
Composer: Becky Sui Zhen
Colourist: Chris Tompkins

When installed, this is a pedal-powered work. The viewer is invited to sit on a bicycle to cycle and work up a sweat to activate the work.

Made in collaboration with workers from the gig economy, On-demand is a pedal-powered video work that considers work, labour, solidarity and movement (political and physical) in the neoliberal present. Living and working in 2019 brings precarity, competition and mobility – both for independent artists and ‘independent contractors’ of the gig economy. Self-exploitation, low wages and zero-hour contracts are shared terrain for many workers in both the cultural and service sectors.


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Living Room (Short Film)

Writers: Rhys Mitchell & Jessica Barclay Lawton
Director: Jessica Barclay Lawton
Producers: Jessica Barclay Lawton & Rhys Mitchell
Line Producer: Rumi Tominaga
Director of Photography: Alex Cardy
Sound Designer & Composer: Gunay Demirci
Editor: Paul Rowe

Melbourne International Film Festival 2019
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2019
Flickerfest 2020
Newport Beach Film Festival 2020
Cannes Court Métrage - Short Film Corner 2020
Deep Focus Film Festival – Finalist 2020
Vertigo Film Fest 2020
St Kilda film Festival 2020

Awarded 'Best Cinematography' at Vertigo Film Festival 2020

Link to full film
available on request.


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We're Not Here (Short Film)

Director: Bonnie Moir (Exit Films)
Producer: Benjamin Rigby
Written By: Adam Spellicy
Director of Photography: Alex Cardy
Starring: Benjamin Rigby & Pekka Strang
Editor: Maria Papoutsis
Underwater Unit Cinematography: Darren Crawford
Sound Design & Mix: Lachlan Harris
Colour Grade: Kali Bateman

Melbourne International Film Festival 2019
Outfest Los Angeles International Film Festival 21019
Dallas International Film Festival 2020
Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival 2020
St Kilda Film Festival 2020
Melbourne Queer Film Festival 2020

Link to full film
available on request.


+61 450 179 003
alex@alexcardy.com
© 2024