Most recently, he shot the critically acclaimed "rockumentary" “Heima - a film by Sigur Rós". In 2010 Alan served as a cinematographer on "Go Quiet", a film with jonsi (Jón Þór Birgisson), the film was directed by Dean DeBlois.
He also appeared in the 1988 rockumentary The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years.
In August 2011 Kompas reported that Mira Lesmana and Riri Riza have spent two years producing a documentary about the band, to be titled Rockumentary.
It was directed by Nylon editor-in-chief Marvin Scott Jarrett, who also directed the band's rockumentary, Fast Future Generation.
Lord Don't Slow Me Down is a rockumentary film, looking back on British rock band Oasis' Don't Believe the Truth world tour which took place from May 2005 to March 2006.
Pearl Jam Twenty (also known as PJ20) is a 2011 American rockumentary directed by Cameron Crowe about the band Pearl Jam.
In November 2006 they released their first film, the rockumentary 40 Bands/80 Minutes!.
The documentary (or rockumentary) was made in 1973 by Joe Boyd, John Head and Gary Weis for Warner Bros. The film contains concert footage from 1967 to 1970, including material from Isle of Wight and the Monterey Pop Festival.
He is most famous, however, for his attempts to produce a so-called rockumentary about Pete Doherty, singer and guitarist with The Libertines and Babyshambles.
Symptomology of a Rock Band: The Case of Crash Test Dummies (1994, Arista/BMG) is a 45-minute video directed by Kris Lefcoe, about the band Crash Test Dummies, done in the style of a medically oriented rockumentary.