Alexander Tatarsky
| Alexander Tatarsky | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Aleksander Mihailovich Tatarskiy December 1, 1950 Kiev, Ukrainian SSR |
| Died |
July 22, 2007 (aged 56) Moscow, Russia |
| Occupation | Animator, director, storyboard artist, producer, screenwriter |
Aleksander Mihailovich Tatarskiy (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Тата́рский; December 11, 1950 – July 22, 2007) was a Soviet-born Russian animation film director, script writer, producer, animator, and artist of Ukrainian Jewish[1] origin. An honoured arts worker of Russia, he was name a laureate of the State Premio of Russian Federation in the field of "literature and arts" and laureate of the Nika Award.
Tatarskiy was born in Kiev in 1950. He studied animation under David Cherkassky. He began working in animation at a Kiev studio at the age of 18 and recovered a camera from the studio's junkyard, which he used to make his first animated film, For the Birds, in 1974. In 1980, Tatarskiy was invited to moved to Moscow to continue his work, which immediately resulted in his 1981 film, Plasticine Crow (Russian: Пластилиновая ворона), which was Russia's first claymation film.[2]
In 1988 he founded the Moscow animation studio Pilot, the first private, independent film studio in the Soviet Union. Most of the films by Aleksandr Tatarsky and Pilot studio have festival awards. The bumper for the children’s telecast Spokoinoi nochi, malyshi! (in English, roughly: "Good Night, Kids") was included into the Guinness Book of Records by the number of broadcasts. Pilot's collection of short-length animations after folktales of Russia’s peoples, The Mount of Gems, is the largest project in the history of Russian animation.
Tatarskiy died of a heart attack in Moscow, Russia, aged 56.[3]
Filmography
- 1974 — For the birds
- 1981 — Plasticine crow
- 1981 — Good night, kids (TV programme heading)
- 1982 — Microfilms
- 1982 — Take care of the bread
- 1982 — Back from the stars
- 1982 — Incident in museum
- 1982 — Tele-eye
- 1983 — Previous year snow falling
- 1983 — New Year's Eve song of Ded Moroz
- 1984 — Back side of the Moon
- 1984 — Alarm clock
- 1985 — Signs
- 1985 — Rubik's Cube. The clownery.
- 1986 — Wings, legs and tails
- 1986 — How not to flood the neighbours
- 1986 — How to warm the tent
- 1986 — There and back again
- 1986—1987 — Investigation held by Kolobki
- 1989 — Lift 1
- 1989 — Lift 2
- 1991 — Putsch
- 1992 — Lift 5
- 1996 — I'll not give you know (advertising video of Mashina Vremeni music band)
- 1999 — Gone by the Wind
- 2002 — Red gates Rashomon
- 2004 — Gems mountain. How Pan was a steed.
- 2004 — Gems mountain. Dreams interpretation.
Films by Tatarskiy's "Pilot Studio"
- June 1995 - Pilot brothers films a video for MTV
- 1996 — Pilot brothers likes to go hunting
- 1996 — Pilot brothers sometimes go fishing
- 1996 — Pilot brothers drinks tea in the evening
- 1996 — Pilot brothers show tricks to each other
- 1996 — Pilot Brothers prepare macaronies on breakfast
- 1996 — Pilot brothers suddenly decided to go hunting
- and many others
References
- ↑ Мой любимый клоун(in Russian)
- ↑ Antonova, Maria (September–October 2007). "An Animating Genius: Alexander Tatarsky, 1950-2007". Russian Life. Vol. 50 no. 5. Montpelier, Vermont, USA: Russian Information Services. Retrieved May 12, 2017. horizontal tab character in
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External links
- Alexander Tatarsky on IMDb
- Profile at animator.ru
- A famous 1986 essay by Tatarskiy, translated into English
- Biography of Aleksandr Tatarskiy
- La monto da gemoj - some Gora samotsvetov (Gem Mountain) series, created by Aleksandr Tatarskiy's Pilot studio, with subtitles in Esperanto.