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Alexander Hammid
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Biography
Alexander Hammid born Alexandr Hackenschmied (17 December 1907, Linz â 26 July 2004, New York City) was a leading photographer, film director, cinematographer and editor in Czechoslovakia between the two world wars. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1938 and became involved in American avant-garde cinema. He is best known known for his film, Crisis (1939), Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) and To Be Alive!(1964). He made Meshes of the Afternoon, with his wife Maya Derenâto whom he was married from 1942 to 1947. He won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) for To Be Alive! (1964), which he co-directed with Francis Thompson.
BODY OF WORK
Alexander Hammid's Filmography
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No Poster
Maya Deren, Take Zero
as Himself
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as Himself (archive footage)
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
as Himself
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
Aimless Walk - Alexander Hammid
as Himself
Invocation: Maya Deren
as Himself (as Sasha Hammid)
At Land
Meshes of the Afternoon
as The Man