Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker
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Alexandre Alexeieff was born in the town of Kazan in Russia in 1901. He spent his early childhood in Constantinople where his father was a military attaché. At the time of the Russian Revolution he was a military cadet.
In 1921 he left Russia for France, where he began his involvement with illustration and animation. Alexeieff married Clare Parker, a wealthy American art student living in Paris. Together they formed a life-long partnership working together on animated films. Parker died in 1981, Alexeieff in 1982. Their main contribution to the art of animation is the pin screen.
Filmography
- Night on Bald Mountain (1933)
- Belle au bois dormant, La (1935)
- Balatum (1938)
- Huilor (1938)
- Oranges de Jaffa, Les (1938)
- Chants populaires nº 5 (1944)
- En Passant (1946)
- Fumées (1951)
- Masques (1952)
- Nocturne (1954)
- Sève de la terre, La (1955)
- Cent pour cent (1957)
- Anonyme (1958)
- Divertissement (1960)
- The Trial (1963)
- L' Eau (1966)
- Le Nez (1963)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (1972)
- Trois thèmes (1980)
External links
- IMDb entry (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0018944/)