Alexandre Alexeieff
Known for Directing
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
Dreams about Alfeoni
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Pure Beauty
1954
Director
A Night on Bald Mountain
1933
Director
Three Moods
1980
Director
Three Moods
1980
Writer
Why Pinscreen?
2024
as Archive footage
Pictures at an Exhibition
1972
Director
En passant
1943
Director
Pinscreen
1973
The Nose
1963
Director
Sleeping Beauty
1935
Director
Osram
1956
Director
Study on the Harmony of Lines
1938
Director
At the Pinboard
1960
At the Pinboard
1960
Director
Chants populaires nº 5
1943
Director
Essais pendulaires
1951
Director
The Two Armies
1935
Director
Huilor, de l'or
1937
Director
Jaffa
1939
Director