Aleksandr Petrov
Nascimento : 1957-07-17, Prechistoye, Yaroslavl Oblast, USSR (Russia)
História
Aleksandr Konstantinovich Petrov (Александр Константинович Петров) (born 17 July 1957 in Prechistoye, Yaroslavl Oblast) is a Russian animator and animation director. Petrov was born in the village of Prechistoye (Yaroslavl Oblast) and lives in Yaroslavl. He studied art at VGIK (state institute of cinema and TV) and was a disciple of Yuriy Norshteyn at Moscow's Advanced School for Screenwriters and Directors.
After making his first films in Russia he moved to Canada where he adapted the novel The Old Man and the Sea, resulting in a 20-minute animated short — the first large-format animated film ever made. Technically impressive, the film is made entirely in pastel oil paintings on glass, a technique mastered by only a handful of animators in the world. By using his fingertips instead of a paintbrush on different glass sheets positioned on multiple levels, each covered with slow-drying oil paints, he was able to add depth to his paintings. After photographing each frame painted on the glass sheets, which was four times larger than the usual A4-sized canvas, he had to slightly modify the painting for the next frame and so on. It took him over two years -- from March 1997 through April 1999 -- to paint each of the 29,000+ frames. For the shooting of the frames a special adapted motion-control camera system was built, probably the most precise computerized animation stand ever made. On this an IMAX camera was mounted, and a video-assist camera was then attached to the IMAX camera. The film was highly acclaimed, receiving the Academy Award for Animated Short Film and Grand Prix at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
After this, Aleksandr Petrov has maintained a close relationship with Pascal Blais Studio in Canada, which helped fund The Old Man and the Sea, where he works on commercials. He returned to Yaroslavl in Russia to work on his latest film, My Love, which was finished in spring 2006 after three years' work and had its premiere at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival on 27 August, where it won the Audience Prize and the Special International Jury Prize. On 17 March 2007, My Love was theatrically released at the Cinema Angelika in Shibuya, (Japan) by Studio Ghibli, as the first release of the "Ghibli Museum Library" (theatrical and DVD releases of Western animated films in Japan).
In a 2009 interview, Petrov stated that he was jobless and using-up the last of his previously earned money. A 2010 article stated that Petrov wants to create an animated feature film with his technique, but cannot start because of lack of funds. Four years later he directed a three-minute animated sequence for the Sochi Paralympic Games called Firebird (Жар-птица). In an interview later that year, Petrov confirmed that if he can find the funding, he would like to work on a feature film in the future using his signature style, and stated that he is currently working on a film project but that it is progressing with great difficulty.
In July 2016 Petrov sat on the board of directors for the International Film Festival of Poetic Animation held in Pergola, Italy.
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Firebird is a three-minute animated sequence directed by Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov for the Sochi paralympic games.
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Released to honor the 1000th anniversary of the city of Yaroslavl, Russia.
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Paint-on-glass animated short project overseen by Aleksandr Petrov.
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In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.
Production Design
In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.
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In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.
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In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.
The history of Russian animated films.
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Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material – the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names of animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn's, though, is nearly two minutes long).
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Sem conseguir fisgar um peixe há quase três meses, o velho Santiago resolve enfrentar o alto-mar sozinho para provar aos outros e a si mesmo que ainda é um bom pescador. Quando se depara com um marlim gigante, ele vê sua má sorte mudar, imergindo numa jornada de lutas e sonhos para pescá-lo.
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Sem conseguir fisgar um peixe há quase três meses, o velho Santiago resolve enfrentar o alto-mar sozinho para provar aos outros e a si mesmo que ainda é um bom pescador. Quando se depara com um marlim gigante, ele vê sua má sorte mudar, imergindo numa jornada de lutas e sonhos para pescá-lo.
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Sem conseguir fisgar um peixe há quase três meses, o velho Santiago resolve enfrentar o alto-mar sozinho para provar aos outros e a si mesmo que ainda é um bom pescador. Quando se depara com um marlim gigante, ele vê sua má sorte mudar, imergindo numa jornada de lutas e sonhos para pescá-lo.
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Sem conseguir fisgar um peixe há quase três meses, o velho Santiago resolve enfrentar o alto-mar sozinho para provar aos outros e a si mesmo que ainda é um bom pescador. Quando se depara com um marlim gigante, ele vê sua má sorte mudar, imergindo numa jornada de lutas e sonhos para pescá-lo.
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Sem conseguir fisgar um peixe há quase três meses, o velho Santiago resolve enfrentar o alto-mar sozinho para provar aos outros e a si mesmo que ainda é um bom pescador. Quando se depara com um marlim gigante, ele vê sua má sorte mudar, imergindo numa jornada de lutas e sonhos para pescá-lo.
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An elderly monk, while training the young novice who will succeed him, recalls the mysterious lost love of his past - just as his young successor appears to be encountering her himself.
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An elderly monk, while training the young novice who will succeed him, recalls the mysterious lost love of his past - just as his young successor appears to be encountering her himself.
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An elderly monk, while training the young novice who will succeed him, recalls the mysterious lost love of his past - just as his young successor appears to be encountering her himself.
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An elderly monk, while training the young novice who will succeed him, recalls the mysterious lost love of his past - just as his young successor appears to be encountering her himself.
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An animated short film based on the 1877 short story written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing to live for in the world, and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl changes his mind.
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An animated short film based on the 1877 short story written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing to live for in the world, and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl changes his mind.
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A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...
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No sertão, na estação ferroviária, mora uma família. O aluno da 4ª série, Vasya Rubtsov, está vivenciando a morte de sua amada melhor amiga, a vaca. O menino se lembra de como eles tinham uma vaca, como essa vaca alimentava a todos com leite e como ela sofria quando o bezerro era vendido para carne...
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No sertão, na estação ferroviária, mora uma família. O aluno da 4ª série, Vasya Rubtsov, está vivenciando a morte de sua amada melhor amiga, a vaca. O menino se lembra de como eles tinham uma vaca, como essa vaca alimentava a todos com leite e como ela sofria quando o bezerro era vendido para carne...
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No sertão, na estação ferroviária, mora uma família. O aluno da 4ª série, Vasya Rubtsov, está vivenciando a morte de sua amada melhor amiga, a vaca. O menino se lembra de como eles tinham uma vaca, como essa vaca alimentava a todos com leite e como ela sofria quando o bezerro era vendido para carne...
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No sertão, na estação ferroviária, mora uma família. O aluno da 4ª série, Vasya Rubtsov, está vivenciando a morte de sua amada melhor amiga, a vaca. O menino se lembra de como eles tinham uma vaca, como essa vaca alimentava a todos com leite e como ela sofria quando o bezerro era vendido para carne...
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The director Misha Tumelya and animators Sasha Dorogov and Alexandr Petrov presented this short to Roy E. Disney as a tribute for the 60th anniversary of Mickey. A little over two minutes in length, the cartoon shows a young boy in black silhouette going to a line that divides the screen image in half. It is like a mirror with the young boy on one side and the classic black and white Mickey Mouse in black silhouette on the other side.
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The director Misha Tumelya and animators Sasha Dorogov and Alexandr Petrov presented this short to Roy E. Disney as a tribute for the 60th anniversary of Mickey. A little over two minutes in length, the cartoon shows a young boy in black silhouette going to a line that divides the screen image in half. It is like a mirror with the young boy on one side and the classic black and white Mickey Mouse in black silhouette on the other side.
