Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker
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Alexandre Alexeieff, sometimes credited as Alexander Alexeieff/Alexander Alexeïeff/Alexandre Alexieff (August 5, 1901 - August 9, 1982) was born in the town of Kazan in Russia. He spent his early childhood near Istanbul where his father was a military attaché. At the time of the Russian Revolution of 1917 he was a military cadet.
In 1921 he left Russia for France, where he began his involvement with illustration and animation. In 1930, Alexeieff married Claire Parker (1910 - 1981), a wealthy American art student living in Paris. Together they formed a life-long partnership working together on animated films. Their main contribution to the art of animation is the pin screen.
They also made many stop motion-animated commercials to sustain themselves financially, though they reportedly did not see much difference between their "artistic" and "commercial" films.
Yuriy Norshteyn, one of Russia's best-known animators, co-authored (along with Giannalberto Bendazzi) a book about him titled Alexeieff - Itinerary of a Master.
[edit] Filmography
- Night on Bald Mountain (Une nuit sur le mont chauve) (1933)
- Parade of the Hats (Parade de chapeaux) (1935)
- Sleeping Beauty (La Belle au bois dormant) (1935)
- Balatum (1938)
- Huilor (1938)
- Jaffa's Oranges (Les Oranges de Jaffa) (1938)
- In Passing (En passant) (1943)
- Popular Songs nº 5 (Chants populaires nº 5) (1944)
- Smoked (Fumées) (1951)
- Masks (Masques) (1952)
- Nocturne (1954)
- The Sap of the Earth (La Sève de la terre) (1955)
- Hundred Per Cent (Cent pour cent) (1957)
- Anonymous Automation (Anonyme automation) (1958)
- Recreation (Divertissement) (1960)
- The Trial (1963)
- The Nose (Le Nez) (1963)
- Water (L'Eau (1966)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (1972)
- Three Moods (Trois thèmes) (1980)
OTHER:
- Alexeieff at the Pinboard (1960) - documentary in their Paris studio
[edit] Bibliography
Bendazzi, Giannalberto (2001). Alexeieff: Itinerary of a Master. Paris, France: Dreamland. ISBN 2-910027-75-9.
