Hyperallergic

Black-and-White Animation Made out of Tiny Pins

Michèle Lemieux, “Here and the Great Elsewhere” (2012) (all images courtesy Sooean Chin) Developed by husband-and-wife team Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker in the 1930s, pinscreen animation is a ...
Cartoon Brew

Building A Pinscreen: How To Make One Of The Rarest Tools In Animation

This year witnessed a rare event in the animation world: the birth of a new pinscreen. The device will live at the art center La Bande Vidéo in Quebec City, and artists will soon be able to access it ...
Dread Central

Motion Picture Purgatory: The Animation of Alexeïeff

This week’s MPP takes us on a bit of an educational journey, introducing us to Russian-born artist, filmmaker, and illustrator Alexandre Alexeïeff; his wife, Claire Parker; and the pinscreen animation ...
Moviefone

Alexeieff Pin Screen Animation

This is a short animation that I did on the pin screen built by Alexandre Alexeieff in Cambridge, MA while he and Clare Parker came to the U.S. to escape the Nazi occupation of Paris during WWII. This ...