Alexander Alexeieff

1901 - 1982

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.

Фильмы

En passant

Alexander Alexeieff

A short animated film.

En passant

7.0 ⚠️ 1945

мультфильм

La belle au bois dormant

Alexander Alexeieff

The tale of Sleeping Beauty recreated through stop motion animation

Sleeping Beauty

7.0 ⚠️ 1935

Франция, мультфильм

Une Nuit sur le Mont Chauve

Claire Parker, Alexander Alexeieff

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?

A Night on Bald Mountain

6.9 ⚠️ 1933

Франция, мультфильм

Tableaux d'une exposition

Claire Parker, Alexander Alexeieff

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

Pictures at an Exhibition

6.9 ⚠️ 1972

Франция, мультфильм

Le Nez

Claire Parker, Alexander Alexeieff

A study in pins of a man who loses his nose which becomes a personality in its own right.

The Nose

6.8 ⚠️ 1963

Франция

Pin Screen

Norman McLaren

Alexander Alexeieff, Claire Parker

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.

Pin Screen

6.7 ⚠️ 1973

Канада, документальный

Trois thèmes

Claire Parker, Alexander Alexeieff

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

6.3 ⚠️ 1980

Франция, мультфильм

À Propos De Jivago

Alexander Alexeieff

Claire Parker, Alexander Alexeieff

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

6.1 ⚠️ 1960

Франция, мультфильм