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Director 1901 - 1982

Alexandre Alexeieff

Kazan, Russian Empire [now Tatarstan, Russia]

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.... Read full bio →

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2 titles
Le nez

Le nez

Claire Parker, Alexandre Alexeieff 1963 11m

A study in pins of a man who loses his nose which becomes a personality in its own right.

Une nuit sur le mont chauve

Une nuit sur le mont chauve

Claire Parker, Alexandre Alexeieff 1933 9m

Mussorgsky's composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by quickly. Beings take shape; a town appears, animals flee, and a horse gallops by. A child looks on. Monsters run and float by: the phantasmagoric is everywhere. A woman's figure tumbles through space.

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