Alexandre Alexeieff

Directing·Aug 1, 1901·Kazan, Russian Empire [now Tatarstan, Russia]

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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.

Film	Credit
Why Pinscreen?2024 · Archive footage	Archive footage
Jacques Drouin: In Relief2009 · Archive Footage	Archive Footage
Dreams about Alfeoni2002 · Self (archive footage)	Self (archive footage)
TThree Moods1980 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Pinscreen1973 · Actor	Actor
PPictures at an Exhibition1972 · Director	Director
The Nose1963 · Director	Director
AAlexeïeff at Work on 'The Nose': Rushes1962 · Self	Self
AAt the Pinboard1960 · Actor, Director	Actor, Director
Études des solides illusoires1960 · Director	Director
Cocinor1957 · Director	Director
Osram1956 · Director	Director
LLa sève de la terre1955 · Director	Director
Pure Beauty1954 · Director	Director
Essais pendulaires1951 · Director	Director
En passant1943 · Director	Director
EEn passant: Making of1943 · Director	Director
Chants populaires nº 51943 · Director	Director
AAbout Gold1939 · Director	Director
JJaffa1939 · Director	Director
AAroma1939 · Director	Director
CCard Game1939 · Director	Director
PPulling Four Needles1939 · Director	Director
SStudy on the Harmony of Lines1938 · Director	Director
GGreat Fires1938 · Director	Director
HHuilor, de l'or1937 · Director	Director
New Stars1937 · Director	Director
TThe Artist's Palette1937 · Director	Director
EEvian1937 · Director	Director
DDeux amies1936 · Director	Director
CCenra1936 · Director	Director
DDavros Ronde1936 · Director	Director
LLingner Werke1936 · Director	Director
Opta empfängt1936 · Director	Director
NNaissance de Vénus1936 · Director	Director
Sleeping Beauty1935 · Director	Director
Parade of Hats1935 · Director	Director
TThe Throne of France1935 · Director	Director
TThe Two Armies1935 · Director	Director
A Night on Bald Mountain1933 · Director	Director