Person
Alexandre Alexeieff
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Aug 1, 1901
- Died
- Aug 9, 1982
- From
- Kazan, Russian Empire [now Tatarstan, Russia]
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.
Credits
Pinscreen
Dreams about Alfeoni
At the Pinboard
Alexeïeff at Work on 'The Nose': Rushes
Why Pinscreen?
Jacques Drouin: In Relief
Three Moods
Pictures at an Exhibition
A Night on Bald Mountain
The Nose
Études des solides illusoires
Essais pendulaires
En passant
The Trial
Deux amies
Huilor, de l'or
Chants populaires nº 5
Parade of Hats