Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker
From Freepedia
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 Claire 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)
