Movies: Alexandre Alexeieff

The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through bizarre encounters to escape this nightmare....

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 . He did the first color ...

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. The screen is lit from the side so that the pins cast shadows....

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. This second pinscreen could be rotated thus giving more of an illusion of three-dimensionality...

An abstract animation made for Van der Elst....

An advertisement for Creme Simon brand cosmetics....

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

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. It was based on three works by Mussorgsky....

This retelling of Sleeping Beauty, recreated through stop motion animation, is centered on lithe Prince Charming, who leaps and bounds through our storybook set. Film commissioned by a wine company....

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...

An advertisement for Creme Simon brand cosmetics....

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....

Russian artist Alexander Alexeieff illustrated the song "Et moi je m'enfouiyais" (En passant) using the pinscreen technique. Norman McLaren illustrated "C'est l'aviron" using cartoons on a fixed background; the characters were pasted in as they were ...

An advertisement for Huilor brand Cooking oil....

An advertisement for Creme Simon brand cosmetics....

A hat advertisement for Sools by animators Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff....

An advertisement for Sigrand brand Menswear....

An advertisement for Gaine Roussel brand lingerie....

An advertisement for Levitan brand furniture....

An abstract animation made for Van der Elst....