Alexandre Alexeieff Trailers
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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.
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Total trailers found: 41
25 August 1962
Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.
01 January 1939
An advertisement for Jaffa brand oranges.
01 January 1936
An advertisement for Cenra brand Wrapping Paper.
30 April 2002
Alexander Alekseev, Alyosha, Alfeoni ... artist, animator, inventor. The author of "Night on Bald Mountain" — one of the most mysterious films in the history of animation and the inventor of a unique device — a needle screen .
12 May 1973
Pinscreen animation makes use of a screen filled with movable pins, which can be moved in or out by pressing an object onto the screen.
01 January 1938
An advertisement for Nestor Martin's foundry.
01 January 1935
An advertisement for Levitan brand furniture.
01 January 1937
An advertisement for Evian brand mineral water.
01 January 1939
An advertisement for Sigrand brand Menswear.
01 January 1936
Advertising of the Simon cream.
01 January 1936
An advertisement for Lingner brand Toilet Paper.
01 January 1938
An advertisement for Gaine Roussel brand lingerie.
01 January 1939
An advertisement for Franck Aroma brand coffee.
01 January 1937
An advertisement made for Balatum brand linoleum.
01 January 1936
An advertisement for Davros brand cigarettes.
01 January 1939
An advertisement for Huilor brand Cooking oil.
01 January 1935
An advertisement for Creme Simon brand cosmetics.
01 January 1939
An advertisement for Creme Simon brand cosmetics.
01 January 1937
Advertising of the peanut oil of Rufisque conditioned in the big oil factory of Bordeaux for the brand Huilor.
01 January 1936
An advertisement for Creme Simon brand cosmetics.
26 December 1963
A study in pins of a man who loses his nose which becomes a personality in its own right.
01 January 1980
The last film made by Alexander Alexeieff and Claire Parker. Trois thèmes was made on the pinscreen, and first shown in Milan, Italy, in March 1980.
01 January 1955
Animated film made as a commercial for Esso, an oil and lubricant company.
01 January 1954
A lyrical composition of sculptural fragments of the body is celebrated for its precise framing, editing and animation techniques that explores the connections between abstract shapes, sensuality, and erotic attraction.
31 December 1943
Pinscreen animation short made for the NFB's "Chants populaires" series of French-Canadian folk songs.
01 January 1972
Based on Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. This film used two pinscreens. In front of the main pinscreen, they installed a second, smaller one.
01 November 1933
Mussorgsky's composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things.
05 August 1943
Alexandre Alexeïeff illustrated the song "Et moi je m'enfouiyais" (En passant) using the pinscreen technique.
11 June 2024
The Pinscreen is a tool that was created in the 1930s to make animation films. Although it no longer provides any technical advantages, a handful of animation directors still use it.
09 April 1960
Alexandre Alexeieff and wife Claire Parker demonstrate and comment on animation techniques used to create illustrations for books like Zhivago and films such as The Nose and Night on Bald Mountain.
01 January 1951
Experiments with composite pendulums; study of variations in pendulum measurements resulting from changes in physical parameters such as frequency or the size and shape of the solid objects.
01 January 1937
An animated short film by Alexandre Alexeieff.
09 April 1935
This retelling of Sleeping Beauty, recreated through stop motion animation, is centered on lithe Prince Charming, who leaps and bounds through our storybook set.
01 January 2009
This documentary is a portrait of the animator of Le Paysagiste, from his childhood in Eastern Quebec to his career at the NFB.
01 January 1935
A hat advertisement for Sools by animators Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff.
31 December 1943
On the making of the film En passant: wide shots of several sequences from the film on the new pinscreen built by the authors in 1942, during their exile in the United States from 1940 to 1947.
01 January 1957
An abstract animation made for Cocinor.
01 January 1962
Alexandre Alexeïeff is at work in his studio on the large pin screen during the making of The Nose. The film was probably shot by Claire Parker.
01 January 1956
An abstract animation made for Osram.
01 January 1936
An animation made for Radio Löwe
