Alexandre Alexeieff Movies

Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.

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

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

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

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...

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....

Alexandre Alexeïeff illustrated the song "Et moi je m'enfouiyais" (En passant) using the pinscreen technique. Norman McLaren illustrated "C'est...

An advertisement for Davros brand cigarettes.

An advertisement for Jaffa brand oranges.

An abstract animation made for Osram.

The Pinscreen is a tool that was created in the 1930s to make animation films. Although it no longer provides any technical advantages, a handful of...

Advertising of the peanut oil of Rufisque conditioned in the big oil factory of Bordeaux for the brand Huilor.

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

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

A lyrical composition of sculptural fragments of the body is celebrated for its precise framing, editing and animation techniques that explores the...

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

An advertisement for Huilor brand Cooking oil.

An abstract animation made for Cocinor.