Alex Lukens.
Lecturer of Emerging Media Design and Development
Alex Lukens is a lecturer in Ball State University’s Department of Journalism. He holds an MA in Film & Media Studies from Emory University of Atlanta, Georgia. Since 2009, Lukens has been a freelance visual storyteller. He has worked as an editor, videographer, and cinematographer on documentaries, industrials, and music videos.
In 2015, Lukens was awarded the Idea Capital Grant for his film High Fructose Suicide Booth. If that’s not impressive enough, Lukens also assisted in the production of Stranger Things, Season 1 and Vampire Diaries, Season 5. In the last decade, Lukens has worked on over 30 films. Most recently, Lukens directed and produced the 2018 short film I’m Working On It.
His interests include film production, cinema studies, promotion and exhibition, participatory culture, gimmicks, cults of personality, transmedia storytelling, user experience, empathy research, professional wrestling, and body genres.
To see more of Lukens’ work, visit his portfolio website here.
Highlights
- Winner of the 2015 Idea Capital Grant
- Participated in the making of over 30 films
Research Interest
- Film production, cinema studies, promotion and exhibition
- Participatory culture, gimmicks, cults of personality
- Transmedia, user experience, empathy research
- Professional wrestling, body genres
Publications
- (2017) Live Event Video: We Weren’t Meant to Fly
- (2016) Corporate Video: Bluelock Cloud Computing
- (2016) Live Event Video: Rocket Doll Revue Burlesque
- (2014) Documentary Series: Plastic Movies Rewound
- (2013) Music Video: Anthony David – “Can’t Look Down”
- (2012)Documentary: Plastic of the Lemon Grove
- (2011 – 2013) Zoo Atlanta
- (2012) Music Video: UGLYBoNES – “Wrong Goods/Failed Attempt”
- (2011) Music Video: UGLYBoNES – “Leave Me Alone”
- (2018) I’m Working On It, Producer, Director 6 minute documentary; sign spinning advertiser’s struggle to work
- (2018) High Fructose Suicide Booth, Writer, Producer, Director 14 minute black comedy; a suicide booth operator tries to make ends meet Grant funded $1500, crowdfunded $10,000, self-financed $1500
- (2014) Night Terrors, Co-Writer, Co-Producer, Co-Director 98-minute horror film; 3 half-hour shorts and a framing tale story Distributed worldwide on DVD, VHS, and VOD by Camp Motion Pictures
- (2009) When I Die Writer, Co-Producer 89-minute mockumentary film; suicide of a filmmaker Self-distributed DVD through Weird on Top Pictures
- (2009) Purdue’s Ultimate Spring Break Challenge, Director, Editor 90-minute documentary film; student volunteers in New York City Distributed through BoilerTV college television station, limited DVD run
- (2014) “Never Night Here: The Imbued Object in The Hourglass Sanitorium (1973”); Emory Cinematheque, Emory University
- (2013) “Repurposing Media’s Architectures: The Transformative Power of the Gimmick”; Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository, Emory University: http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/d7n8z
Contact Us
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Art and Journalism Building (AJ),
Room 300, Muncie, IN 47303 - 765-285-8229
- bsujourn@bsu.edu