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With a self-effacing charm and deadpan delivery, Alex Karpovsky comes off as a less nebbishy Woody Allen for the urban hipster set. The former karaoke video editor's first film, The Hole Story, is as difficult to categorize as it is easy to like, and its unique blend of pathos, charm, and wit was excellent enough to warrant his inclusion in FILMMAKER MAGAZINE's "25 NEW FACES OF INDEPENDENT FILM 2006."
Described by Filmmaker Magazine's Matthew Ross as "one of the most original American comedies we've seen in a long time," the film stars Alex Karpovsky as Alex Karpovsky, a depressed karaoke video editor living in Boston who journeys to the wintry desolation of small town Minnesota. His quest--to observe the opening of a legendary hole in a frozen lake, which opens only once a year.
Starring Alex as well as the local townspeople of Brainerd, Minnesota as themselves, Karpovsky's movie is a pleasing blend of the actual and fictional, about the quest to fill the holes in all of us. Alex is presently filming a comedy about a seldom seen woodpecker in a remote hamlet in Arkansas.
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