Alexander Bendahan: Film Producer

Biography

In the fall of 2006 Alexander Bendahan  produced, wrote and composed the music for the short film "Rose Murray, Portrait of a Photographer."  The film  was originally conceived to a ccompany the British photographer's gallery exhibits both in the United States and abroad. This documentary was the follow up to his first film effort as a producer, writer and sound recordist for "Open Borders," (L' Histoire du Opera Mosset) a documentary filmed in  France in 2005. 

Spurred on by his interest in the film business, Bendahan made the decision to return to the academic world in 2000 after many years in the fields of music and live concert audio. Completing his studies in twentieth century music composition and computer music he contributed to a number of graduate projects in the capacity of sound editor, sound designer and music composer. These works include  the Stanford University graduate project  "The Radius Our Passion Fills,"  a computer graphics animated short.  "The Radius" was granted the honor of being accepted into the Stanford University Archives in 2003. In 2002 he contributed his services in the same capacities for "Powers of Darkness," a graduate  film project at University of California at Berkeley and for "The Liminal Project," a multi-media graduate project at Cal State Hayward. 

Upcoming plans include a documentary on internationally acclaimed architect and sculptor Jacques Overhoff, an "ambient" piece on Pyramid Lake in Nevada, a documentary combining the Noise Music scene in Brisbane Australia with the Aborigines in the Northern Territories, the story of the Tuareg people of southern Morocco and a challenging multi-arts project entitled "The Art Army." 

Alexander Bendahan is a native of San Francisco, California. His background includes producing musical groups as well as having toured extensively as a performer in the United States and Europe. He holds a degree in music composition, having studied at San Francisco City College, Cal State Hayward and California State University at San Francisco. He speaks German fluently and has a working understanding of French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch. 

Mr. Bendahan is a Sound Arts instructor at the Ex'pression College for Digital Arts in Emeryville, California and an active member of the San Francisco Film Arts Foundation.