Alexandre Alexeieff Movies

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...

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

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...

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 Lingner brand Toilet Paper.

An advertisement for Creme Simon brand cosmetics.

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

An abstract animation made for Ultra Therma.

Advertising of the Simon cream.

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

An advertisement for Davros brand cigarettes.

An abstract animation made for Bendix.

An animation made for Radio Löwe

An advertisement for Jaffa brand oranges.

Alexandre Alexeïeff is at work in his studio on the large pin screen during the making of The Nose. The film was probably shot by Claire Parker.

An advertisement for Huilor brand Cooking oil.