Alexandre Alexeieff
Directing
Born: 1901-08-01 · Kazan, Russian Empire [now Tatarstan, Russia]
Died: 1982-08-09
Biography
Russian-born French experimental short artist who with his wife, American-born Claire Parker, invented the pinscreen animation technique. He is most known for designing the prologue sequence for Orson Welles's The Trial. He grew up in Constantinople, then the Ottoman Empire. His landmark work, Night on Bald Mountain (1933) was a fusion of musical piece and imagery, seven years before Wait Disney attempted the same piece as part of Fantasia (1940). Two years later he would produce the first promo
🎬 Movies (30)
Why Pinscreen?
2024
Archive footage
Jacques Drouin: In Relief
2009
Archive Footage
Dreams about Alfeoni
2002
Self (archive footage)
Three Moods
1980
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Pinscreen
1973
Pictures at an Exhibition
1972
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The Nose
1963
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Alexeïeff at Work on 'The Nose': Rushes
1962
Self
The Trial
1962
Animation
At the Pinboard
1960
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Études des solides illusoires
1960
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Cocinor
1957
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Osram
1956
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La sève de la terre
1955
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Pure Beauty
1954
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Essais pendulaires
1951
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En passant
1943
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Chants populaires nº 5
1943
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En passant: Making of
1943
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About Gold
1939
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Jaffa
1939
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Aroma
1939
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Card Game
1939
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Pulling Four Needles
1939
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Study on the Harmony of Lines
1938
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Great Fires
1938
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Huilor, de l'or
1937
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New Stars
1937
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The Artist's Palette
1937
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Evian
1937
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