ALEXANDRE ALEXEÏEFF DVD
Animation works
DVD PAL, 30 films
English French booklet 20 pages
Total running time 137 min. Price 30 Euros.
Languages : English - French
Complements : Picture gallery, photos, portraits, engraving, tools.
This dvd contains 30 films, (27 by Alexeïeff), gathering for the first time the nearly complete cinematographic works, of this exceptional inventor and artist who brought Animated film to the highest levels of artistic demand in the 30's. On the pinboard, this extraordinary imaging device, built with Claire Parker, five films have been made, all of which being on the dvd, including the mythical “Night on Bald Mountain” (1933) on Mussorgsky's music, “The Nose” based on Gogol's short story, “Pictures at an Exhibition” and “Three moods”. One will also be able to see 20 animated objects advertising films made from the 30's to the 60's for the most famous brands, as well as unreleased Totalised Animation tests, and the Norman McLaren documentary “The Pinboard”, in which Alexeïeff and Parker reveal its working principles. As a complement a picture gallery of portraits, sketches, engravings, recreates the atmosphere of this unique artistic epic.
I'll not share anything more from this disc, and I'm not open for discussion on this subject, if you want to see the rest purchase it.
The file includes all the pinscreen works:
Nuit sur le mont Chauve (1933)/ Night on Bald Mountain
En passant (1944)
Le Nez (1963) / The Nose
Tableaux d'une exposition (1972) / Pictures at an Exhibition
Trois Thèmes (1980) / Three Moods
Alexeïeff says in one of the documentaries, cinema will become an art, when you have it on your shelf and view at your pleasure, like a poem a music. He was right. There is still 21 works on the disc and some documentaries about the technique and some studies Alexeïeff made, it's only 30 euros so consider to purchase it.
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