Alexandr Petrov's animated film from 1999 (Academy Award for Animated Short Film)

For the chess player, see Alexander Petrov.

Alexandr Petrov (also Aleksander Petrov or Aleksandre Petrov) (July 17, 1957) is a Russian animator and animation director. He was born in the village Prechistoye (Yaroslavl Oblast) and lives in Yaroslavl. This is a screenshot of a copyrighted movie or television program. ... This is a screenshot of a copyrighted movie or television program. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Old Farts by the Sometimes-United Nations. ... This class was known as Short Subjects, cartoons from 1932 until 1970, and as Short Subjects, animated films from 1971 to 1973. ... Alexander Petrov Alexander Dmitrievich Petrov (Rus. ... July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An animator is one who is involved in the process of animation. ... Animation is the filming a sequence of drawings or positions of models to create an illusion of movement. ... Yaroslavl Oblast (Russian: ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), which is located in the Central Federal District, surrounded by Tver, Moscow, Ivanovo, Vladimir, Kostroma, and Vologda Oblasts. ... A public building in Yaroslavl Yaroslavl (Russian: ) is a city in Russia, the administrative center of Yaroslavl Oblast, located 250 km north-east of Moscow at . ...

He had studied art, in particular at VGIK (State institute of the cinema and TV). He was a disciple of Yuri Norstein in Advanced School for screenwriters and directors (Moscow). The All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography is the worlds oldest educational institution in Cinematography, founded in 1919. ... Yuri Norstein Yuri Borisovich Norstein (Russian: Юрий Борисович Норштейн) (b. ...

After making his first films in Russia, in Canada he adapted the novel The Old Man and the Sea, resulting in a 20 minute long animated short — the first large-format animated film ever made. Technically impressive, the film is made entirely in pastel oil paintings on glass, a technique mastered by only a handful of animators in the world. By using his fingertips instead of a paintbrush on different glass sheets positioned on multiple levels, each covered with slow-drying oil paints, he was able to add depth to his paintings. After photographing each frame painted on the glass sheets, which was four times larger than the usual A4-sized canvas, he had to slightly modify the painting for the next frame and so on. It took Alexandr Petrov over two years, from March 1997 through April 1999, to paint each of the 29,000+ frames. For the shooting of the frames a special adapted motion-control camera system was built, probably the most precise computerized animation stand ever made. On this an IMAX camera was mounted, and a video-assist camera was then attached to the IMAX camera. The film was highly rewarded, receiving the Academy Award for the best animated short and Grand Prix at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Lately, Alexandr Petrov has been working mostly on commercials as part of Pascal Blais Studio [1] in Canada, which also helped fund "The Old Man and the Sea". The Old Man and the Sea is a novella by Ernest Hemingway written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. ... A comparison of different paper sizes A4 is a standard paper size, defined by the international standard ISO 216 as 210×297 mm (roughly 8. ... IMAX theatre at the Melbourne Museum complex, Australia. ... The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ... This class was known as Short Subjects, cartoons from 1932 until 1970, and as Short Subjects, animated films from 1971 to 1973. ... Pont des Amours à Annecy - Bridge of Love in Annecy The old jail La rue Carnot Annecy is a town in the Haute-Savoie region of eastern France, on the shores of Lake Annecy, 22 miles south of Geneva. ...

Filmography

• Korova (The Cow) (after Andrey Platonov) (1989)
• Son smeshnogo cheloveka (The Dream of a Ridiculous Man) (after Fyodor Dostoevsky) (1992)
• Rusalka (Mermaid) (after Alexander Pushkin) (1997)
• Starik i More (The Old Man and the Sea) (after Ernest Hemingway) (1999)
• Participated in Winter Days (2003)
• My Love (2006)

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External links

• Alexandr Petrov at the Internet Movie Database
• Pascal Blais Studio - here you can see clips of Petrov's films (enter the English site, then click on "directors")