Alex Crowton

Alex Crowton is a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for the MA Media Production at York St John University's School of the Arts. With 12 years of teaching experience, they specialize in experimental and documentary film production, curriculum design, and entrepreneurial media practices. Their academic roles include External Examiner positions at Birmingham City University and Fellow status with the Higher Education Academy.

Research focuses on 'Woodchuck Cinema' aesthetics and 'materials psychogeography,' producing films like Tube (2022) exploring class and industrial heritage. Notable projects include This is Sparklehorse (2022) and The Sad & Beautiful World of Sparklehorse (2016), which won a Skyline Indie Film Festival award. They also created In Praise of the Garage (2021) and collaborated on pandemic-related work like Pip, Pop, and a Pandemic (2021).

Awards include a Royal Television Society Award for prison music project Change the Way/ One Life to Live (2007). Their work frequently engages marginalized communities, including collaborations with Geese Theatre Company and Sonic DB prison music initiatives. Crowton regularly participates in film festival panels (Doc'n Roll, Aesthetica) and advocates for DIY filmmaking methodologies.