Directing

Alexandre Alexeieff

Born 1901-08-01

Kazan, Russian Empire [now Tatarstan, Russia]

Department: 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.

1954

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Filmography & Credits

Complete career catalog (43 titles)

Title	Character / Role	Type	Year
Why Pinscreen?	Archive footage	Movie	2024
Jacques Drouin: In Relief	Archive Footage	Movie	2009
Dreams about Alfeoni	Self (archive footage)	Movie	2002
Three Moods	Writer	Movie	1980
Three Moods	Director	Movie	1980
Pinscreen	Self / Appearance	Movie	1973
Pictures at an Exhibition	Director	Movie	1972
The Nose	Director	Movie	1963
The Trial	Animation	Movie	1962
Alexeïeff at Work on 'The Nose': Rushes	Self	Movie	1962
At the Pinboard	Self / Appearance	Movie	1960
At the Pinboard	Director	Movie	1960
Études des solides illusoires	Director	Movie	1960
Cocinor	Director	Movie	1957
Osram	Director	Movie	1956
La sève de la terre	Director	Movie	1955
Pure Beauty	Director	Movie	1954
Essais pendulaires	Director	Movie	1951
En passant	Director	Movie	1943
En passant: Making of	Director	Movie	1943
Chants populaires nº 5	Director	Movie	1943
About Gold	Director	Movie	1939
Jaffa	Director	Movie	1939
Aroma	Director	Movie	1939
Card Game	Director	Movie	1939
Pulling Four Needles	Director	Movie	1939
Study on the Harmony of Lines	Director	Movie	1938
Great Fires	Director	Movie	1938
Huilor, de l'or	Director	Movie	1937
New Stars	Director	Movie	1937
The Artist's Palette	Director	Movie	1937
Evian	Director	Movie	1937
Deux amies	Director	Movie	1936
Cenra	Director	Movie	1936
Davros Ronde	Director	Movie	1936
Lingner Werke	Director	Movie	1936
Opta empfängt	Director	Movie	1936
Naissance de Vénus	Director	Movie	1936
Sleeping Beauty	Director	Movie	1935
Parade of Hats	Director	Movie	1935
The Throne of France	Director	Movie	1935
The Two Armies	Director	Movie	1935
A Night on Bald Mountain	Director	Movie	1933