Alexandre Alexeieff

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1901-08-01

Deathday 1982-08-09 (81 years old)

Place of Birth Kazan, Russian Empire [now Tatarstan, Russia]

Also Known As Alexandre Alexeieff, Alexandre Alexieff, Александр Алексеев, Alexander Alexeïeff

Alexandre Alexeieff

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.

Known For

Director

1980
Three Moods

as Director

1963
The Nose

as Director

1961
Water

as Director

1960
1958
Anonymous

as Director

1958
Constance

as Director

1958
Divertissement

as Director

1958
Automation

as Director

1957
100%

as Director

1957
Cocinor

as Director

1956
Four seasons

as Director

1956
Osram

as Director

1956
Mr. X's Bath

as Director

1955
1954
Pure Beauty

as Director

1954
Rhymes

as Director

1954
Nocturne

as Director

1953
Masks

as Director

1952
Smoked

as Director

1951
Essais pendulaires

as Director

1943
En passant

as Director

1943
1939
About Gold

as Director

1939
Jaffa

as Director

1939
Aroma

as Director

1939
Card Game

as Director

1939
1938
Great Fires

as Director

1937
Huilor, de l'or

as Director

1937
New Stars

as Director

1937
1937
Evian

as Director

1936
Deux amies

as Director

1936
Cenra

as Director

1936
Davros Ronde

as Director

1936
Lingner Werke

as Director

1936
Opta empfängt

as Director

1936
1935
Parade of Hats

as Director

1935
Sleeping Beauty

as Director

1935
1935
The Two Armies

as Director

1933

Actor

2002
Dreams about Alfeoni

as Self (archive footage)

Writer

1980
Three Moods

as Writer

Visual Effects

1962
The Trial

as Animation