Pioneer experimental animator Claire Parker studied to be a painter before starting a lifetime career in film. She worked with her husband-to-be Alexandre Alexeieff for nearly a decade before being married in 1941. Parker was the technical specialist and artistic assistant to Alexeieff. Their films are milestones in the history of 20th-century fine-art animation in the United States and throughout the world. Cecile Starr
Alexandre Alexeïeff and Claire Parker All ages 61 minutes
Sun 20 Apr 3.00pm / Cinema A
Alexeïeff at the Pinboard 1960
16MM, BLACK AND WHITE, MONO, 8 MINUTES, FRANCE / DIRECTORS: CLAIRE PARKER AND ALEXANDRE ALEXEIEFF
Une nuit sur le mont chauve (Night on Bald Mountain) 1933
16MM, BLACK AND WHITE, MONO, 8 MINUTES, FRANCE / DIRECTORS: CLAIRE PARKER AND ALEXANDRE ALEXEIEFF
La belle au bois dormant (Sleeping Beauty) 1935
16MM, COLOUR, 6 MINUTES, MONO, FRANCE / DIRECTORS: CLAIRE PARKER AND ALEXANDRE ALEXEÏEFF
En Passant 1943
16MM, BLACK AND WHITE, MONO, 2 MINUTES, CANADA AND USA / DIRECTORS: CLAIRE PARKER AND ALEXANDRE ALEXEÏEFF
Colour Commercials 1952-61
16MM, COLOUR, MONO, 8 MINUTES, FRANCE / DIRECTORS: CLAIRE PARKER AND ALEXANDRE ALEXEÏEFF
Le nez (The Nose) 1963
16MM, BLACK AND WHITE, MONO, 11 MINUTES, FRANCE / DIRECTORS: CLAIRE PARKER AND ALEXANDRE ALEXEÏEFF
Tableaux d’une exposition (Pictures at an Exhibition) 1972
16MM, BLACK AND WHITE, MONO, 10 MINUTES, FRANCE / DIRECTORS: CLAIRE PARKER AND ALEXANDRE ALEXEÏEFF
Trois thèmes (Three Moods) 1980
16MM, BLACK AND WHITE, MONO, 8 MINUTES, FRANCE / DIRECTORS: CLAIRE PARKER AND ALEXANDRE ALEXEÏEFF
Sun 20 Apr 3.00pm / Cinema A
Program provided by Center for Visual Music in association with Cecile Starr and The Women’s Independent Film Exchange.
