Alexander Alexeieff

Alexander Alexeieff

Nacimiento : 1901-08-01, Kazan, Russian Empire [now Tatarstan, Russia]

Muerte : 1982-08-09

Historia

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 promotional film in France made in color.

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Alexander Alexeieff

Películas

Three Moods
Writer
The last film made by Alexander Alexeieff and Claire Parker. Trois thèmes was made on the pinscreen, and first shown in Milan, Italy, in March 1980. It was based on three works by Mussorgsky.
Three Moods
Director
The last film made by Alexander Alexeieff and Claire Parker. Trois thèmes was made on the pinscreen, and first shown in Milan, Italy, in March 1980. It was based on three works by Mussorgsky.
Pin Screen
Pinscreen animation makes use of a screen filled with movable pins, which can be moved in or out by pressing an object onto the screen. The screen is lit from the side so that the pins cast shadows.
Pictures at an Exhibition
Director
Based on Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. This film used two pinscreens. In front of the main pinscreen, they installed a second, smaller one. This second pinscreen could be rotated thus giving more of an illusion of three-dimensionality
The Nose
Director
A study in pins of a man who loses his nose which becomes a personality in its own right.
El proceso
Animation
Un hombre se despierta por la mañana, y se encuentra con que la policía ha entrado en su habitación y lo arresta, tras acusarlo de haber cometido un crimen.
Water
Director
An abstract animation made for L'Oreal.
À Propos De Jivago
Alexandre Alexeieff and wife Claire Parker demonstrate and comment on animation techniques used to create illustrations for books like Zhivago and films such as The Nose and Night on Bald Mountain
À Propos De Jivago
Director
Alexandre Alexeieff and wife Claire Parker demonstrate and comment on animation techniques used to create illustrations for books like Zhivago and films such as The Nose and Night on Bald Mountain
Études des solides illusoires
Director
Automation
Director
An abstract animation made for Renault.
Divertissement
Director
An abstract animation made for Regie des Tabacs.
Anonymous
Director
An abstract animation made for L'Oreal.
Constance
Director
An abstract animation made for L'Oreal.
100%
Director
An abstract animation made for Nescafé.
Cocinor
Director
An abstract animation made for Cocinor.
Four seasons
Director
An abstract animation made for Blizzand.
Osram
Director
An abstract animation made for Osram.
Mr. X's Bath
Director
An abstract animation made for Bendix.
The Sap of the Earth
Director
An abstract animation made for Esso.
Rhymes
Director
An abstract animation for Brun.
Nocturne
Director
An abstract animation made for Ultra Therma.
Pure beauté
Director
A lyrical composition of sculptural fragments of the body is celebrated for its precise framing, editing and animation techniques that explores the connections between abstract shapes, sensuality, and erotic attraction.
Masks
Director
An abstract animation made for Van der Elst.
Smoked
Director
An abstract animation made for Van der Elst.
Essais pendulaires
Director
En passant
Director
A short animated film.
Jaffa
Director
An advertisement for Jaffa brand oranges.
Card Game
Director
An advertisement for Creme Simon brand cosmetics.
Pulling Four Needles
Director
An advertisement for Sigrand brand Menswear.
Aroma
Director
An advertisement for Franck Aroma brand coffee.
About Gold
Director
An advertisement for Huilor brand Cooking oil.
Great Fires
Director
An advertisement for Nestor Martin's foundry.
Study on the Harmony of Lines
Director
An advertisement for Gaine Roussel brand lingerie.
The Artist's Palette
Director
An advertisement made for Balatum brand linoleum.
New Stars
Director
An animation by Alexander Alexeieff
Evian
Director
An advertisement for Evian brand mineral water.
Cenra
Director
An advertisement for Cenra brand Wrapping Paper.
Davros Ronde
Director
An advertisement for Davros brand cigarettes.
La naissance de Venus
Director
An advertisement for Creme Simon brand cosmetics.
Lingner Werke
Director
An advertisement for Lingner brand Toilet Paper.
Opta empfängt
Director
An animation made for Radio Löwe
Sleeping Beauty
Director
The tale of Sleeping Beauty recreated through stop motion animation
The Two Armies
Director
An advertisement for Creme Simon brand cosmetics.
The Throne of France
Director
An advertisement for Levitan brand furniture.
Parade of Hats
Director
A hat advertisement for Sools by animators Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff
A Night on Bald Mountain
Director
Mussorgsky's composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by quickly. Beings take shape; a town appears, animals flee, and a horse gallops by. A child looks on. Monsters run and float by: the phantasmagoric is everywhere. A woman's figure tumbles through space. A clash ensues. The horse falls. Goblins take control. The night and its denizens are relentless. Forms appear and become grotesque. Will dawn and calm ever come?