Alexander Hetherington is a visual artist who works with 16mm film. His films record encounters within hidden or overlooked queer and trans communities, on live art and experimental performance and with individuals living at the edges of the mainstream. He works as a collaborative cinematographer on other artists’ films including works by Hanna Tuulikki, Luke Fowler, GF Ramsay, Gemma Dagger, Tako Taal, Ayla Dmyterko, Conor Baird, Mhairi Killin and Rachel McBrinn. His recent experimental documentary portrait The Disco opened Glasgow Short Film Festival in March 2025 and has screened at MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival in New York, Elevation Film Festival, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin and The Modern Institute, Glasgow.

In 2022 he presented a series of new 16mm films (developed at a Creative Lab) in an installation at CCA forming a two-person exhibition with Berlin-based artist Scott Caruth and a subsequent CCA-commissioned film Sister Films based on a live performance and script by the artist Catherine Street. His writing, mainly on film and the moving image, includes responses to works by Rosalind Nashashibi, Margaret Salmon, Laida Lertxundi, Savinder Bual, Karen Cunningham, Stan Douglas, Catherine Sullivan, Georgina Starr and Anna Oppermann.