Alexandre Alexeieff
Born: 1901-08-01 in Kazan, Russian Empire [now Tatarstan, Russia]
Died: 1982-08-09
Known For: Directing
Biography
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.
Filmography
2002
- Dreams about Alfeoni as Self (archive footage)
1980
- Three Moods ... (Writer)
1973
1972
- Pictures at an Exhibition ... (Director)
1963
- The Nose ... (Director)
1962
- The Trial ... (Animation)
- Alexeïeff at Work on 'The Nose': Rushes as Self
1961
- Water ... (Director)
1960
- At the Pinboard
- Études des solides illusoires ... (Director)
1958
- Constance ... (Director)
- Automation ... (Director)
- Anonymous ... (Director)
- Divertissement ... (Director)
1956
- Four Seasons ... (Director)
- Osram ... (Director)
- Mr. X's Bath ... (Director)
1955
- The Sap of the Earth ... (Director)
1954
- Pure Beauty ... (Director)
- Rhymes ... (Director)
- Nocturne ... (Director)
1953
- Masks ... (Director)
1952
- Smoked ... (Director)
1951
- Essais pendulaires ... (Director)
1943
- En passant: Making of ... (Director)
- Chants populaires nº 5 ... (Director)
- En passant ... (Director)
1939
- Card Game ... (Director)
- About Gold ... (Director)
- Jaffa ... (Director)
- Aroma ... (Director)
- Pulling Four Needles ... (Director)
1938
- Great Fires ... (Director)
- Study on the Harmony of Lines ... (Director)
1937
- Huilor, de l'or ... (Director)
- New Stars ... (Director)
- Evian ... (Director)
- The Artist's Palette ... (Director)
1936
- Opta empfängt ... (Director)
- Lingner Werke ... (Director)
- Davros Ronde ... (Director)
- Naissance de Vénus ... (Director)
- Deux amies ... (Director)
- Cenra ... (Director)
1935
- Sleeping Beauty ... (Director)
- Parade of Hats ... (Director)
- The Throne of France ... (Director)
- The Two Armies ... (Director)
1933
- A Night on Bald Mountain ... (Director)