Claire Parker

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Parade de chapeaux

Claire Parker, Alexander Alexeieff

A hat advertisement for Sools by animators Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff