Alexandre Alexeieff Movies

Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In...

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...

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

Pinscreen animation short made for the NFB's "Chants populaires" series of French-Canadian folk songs. En Passant illustrates the song "Et moi je...

Alexander Alekseev, Alyosha, Alfeoni ... artist, animator, inventor. The author of "Night on Bald Mountain" — one of the most mysterious films...

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...

Mussorgsky's composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by...

An abstract animation made for L'Oreal.

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....

An abstract animation made for Renault.

An abstract animation made for Blizzand.

An abstract animation made for L'Oreal.

Russian artist Alexander Alexeieff illustrated the song "Et moi je m'enfouiyais" (En passant) using the pinscreen technique. Norman McLaren...

An advertisement for Creme Simon brand cosmetics.

This retelling of Sleeping Beauty, recreated through stop motion animation, is centered on lithe Prince Charming, who leaps and bounds through our...

An advertisement for Gaine Roussel brand lingerie.

Alexandre Alexeieff and wife Claire Parker demonstrate and comment on animation techniques used to create illustrations for books like Zhivago and...

An abstract animation made for Esso.

An advertisement for Nestor Martin's foundry.