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Alexandre Alexeieff

Alexandre Alexeieff

ActorDirectorWriterVisual Effects Aug 1 (died age 81) Kazan, Russian Empire [now Tatarstan, Russia] 1933–2009 (76 year career)
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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 promo…

Known For

The Trial
Film

The Trial

Animation
A Night on Bald Mountain
Film

A Night on Bald Mountain

Director
The Nose
Film

The Nose

Director
En passant
Film

En passant

Director
Pinscreen
Film

Pinscreen

6.7 1973
Sleeping Beauty
Film

Sleeping Beauty

Director
Chants populaires nº 5
Film

Chants populaires nº 5

Director
Cocinor
Film

Cocinor

Director

Filmography