Since his beginnings, Alain Escalle develops a visual research task, traversing the history of the world and travelling over Arts. His technological and pictorial research, between traditional cinema and history of Art, leads Alain Escalle to collaborate, during ten years, with other directors and on many projects, like the artitic commercial series NTT GROUP for Japanese Télécoms, or UNLIMITED MIRAGE Co-directed with Maurice Benayoun (1st Price Imagined 1992 preparing category) or on the artistic direction and the visual effects of short-films like CITIES OF THE PAST: BRUGGE (1st price Imagined 1995, Art category) and the enchanted A VIAGEM carried out in high resolution for the Portuguese house with the World Fair of Lisbon of 1998 (realizer: Christian Boustani, 3rd price Imagined 1999, Art category).