Alexandre Alexeieff
Known for: Directing
Born: August 1, 1901
Died: August 9, 1982
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
41 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
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Why Pinscreen?
2024
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Jacques Drouin: In Relief
2009
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Dreams about Alfeoni
20027.0
Three Moods
1980
6.2
Pinscreen
19735.9
Pictures at an Exhibition
1972
6.5
The Nose
1963
7.4
The Trial
1962NR
Alexeïeff at Work on 'The Nose': Rushes
1962NR
At the Pinboard
1960
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Études des solides illusoires
1960
6.0
Cocinor
1957
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Osram
19569.0
La sève de la terre
1955
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Pure Beauty
1954
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Essais pendulaires
1951
7.4
En passant
1943NR
En passant: Making of
1943
7.0
Chants populaires nº 5
1943NR
About Gold
1939NR
Aroma
1939NR
Pulling Four Needles
1939NR
Card Game
1939NR
Jaffa
1939NR
Study on the Harmony of Lines
1938NR
Great Fires
1938NR
Huilor, de l'or
1937NR
Evian
1937
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New Stars
1937NR
The Artist's Palette
1937NR
Deux amies
1936
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Opta empfängt
1936NR
Lingner Werke
1936NR
Naissance de Vénus
1936NR
Davros Ronde
1936NR
Cenra
1936
7.0
Sleeping Beauty
1935
7.0
Parade of Hats
1935NR
The Throne of France
1935NR
The Two Armies
1935
6.3
A Night on Bald Mountain
1933