Alex Reuben is an artist filmmaker and lecturer with a background as a DJ and in art and design. He teaches collaborative workshops and makes improvised, choreo-geographic movies and sound for cinema.

Reuben was a lecturer at the University of the Arts London and has taught workshops in the urban Amazon and South London. He is a Mayor of London Culture Seeds award winner for voluntary, family, community and heritage projects in arts, movement and science.

The films have a focus on intangible cultural heritage in social dance, craft and sound. Routes – Dancing to New Orleans (48', Arts Council England), a dance road-movie during Hurricane Katrina, was selected in the ‘Top 20 Movies of the Decade’ (Geoff Andrew, BFI/Time Out). Colin's Wings (15', 16mm, UK, 1998), a film about celebrated ceramic artist, Colin Pearson, was Critic's Choice (Time Out) at the BBC Short Film Festival (see 'films').

His films are exhibited internationally and throughout UK cinemas including Picturehouse, Cinémathèque Française, Curzon, HOME Manchester, BFI and the ICA. Events and commissions include BBC, Tate Modern, Wellcome, Guggenheim New York, British Council, Channel 4 TV, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, NAGW, Birkbeck, Jerwood and The Place London. He has featured in Sight & Sound, The Observer, Little White Lies and Time Out.

Characterised by social dance and music, they collaboratively explore connections between art, architecture, science, anthropology and politics in a process of slow-cinema.

NEWSREEL (DANCE REEL) (64', ACE, Sadler's Wells), documenting improvised music, dance and protest on the streets of London, was projected live in a series of cinema screenings and talks (see 'films').

Gingerella RockaFela (66', ACE/Wellcome, UK 2018), an improvised movie about improvisation and collaboration with neuroscientist, Professor Chris Frith, was Gala screening at Light Moves Festival of Screendance. Line Dance (5', CH4/ACE/MJW, 2004), a motion-capture for Channel 4 TV, was selected in Best British Shorts and Best Dance Films (Encounters/British Council).

The films are based upon field R&D, including urban, forest and cognitive science research in the Brazilian Amazon and Japan, supported by ACE, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and a-n Artists.

Reuben was a DJ in the pioneering A Night in Havana, Soul Makossa and Those Rhumba Nights nightclubs. Movement practice includes the Mayor of London award winning, community walking project, KAS (Kennington Kinaesthetic Arts and Science). He was a lecturer at University of the Arts London (CCA, CSM) and Course leader, M.A. Dance for the Screen at London Contemporary Dance School.

Previous events include Moving Humans (Tate Modern), Dame Marina Warner's Words on the Move 4: The Digital Body (Birkbeck), Dance Umbrella's Sunday Shorts (Barbican Cinema), Choreo-Geography: Chartists, Class and Culture (Open House London) and A Conversation with Alex Reuben and James Lasdun (NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts [CBA] in collaboration with the New York Institute for the Humanities).

Publications include an interview in Music and Shape (Oxford University Press, 2017) and as a consultant for neuroscientists, Professors Uta and Chris Frith for Two Heads (Bloomsbury, 2022) and What Makes Us Social (MIT, 2023) re a shared interest in social collaboration.

Reuben studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and Middlesex University London. Most recently he was an NYU Alumni Fellow at the Center for Ballet and the Arts, researching his current movie project Trumpet Voluntary, developed with the BFI and based upon the short story by James Lasdun.