Alexander Hammid
Directing
1907-12-17 · Linz, Austria
Alexander Hammid born Alexandr Hackenschmied (17 December 1907, Linz – 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 Deren—to 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.
Filmography
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012 · Movie
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 · Movie
Martha Graham: Dance on Film
2007 · Movie
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002 · Movie
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002 · Movie
Aimless Walk - Alexander Hammid
1997 · Movie
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986 · Movie
We Are Young
1967 · Movie
To the Fair!
1964 · Movie
To Be Alive!
1964 · Movie
Night Journey
1960 · Movie
Power Among Men
1959 · Movie
Out
1957 · Movie
Out
1956 · Movie
Who's Right?
1954 · Movie
The Medium
1951 · Movie
Of Men and Music
1951 · Movie
The Gentleman in Room 6
1951 · Movie
Marriage: Today
1950 · Movie
Angry Boy
1950 · Movie
It Takes All Kinds
1950 · Movie
Who's Boss?
1950 · Movie
The Photographer
1948 · Movie
The Private Life of a Cat
1946 · Movie
2x Bail
1946 · Movie
Přístav v srdci Evropy
1946 · Movie
A Better Tomorrow
1945 · Movie
Library of Congress
1945 · Movie
The Valley of the Tennessee
1944 · Movie
Hymn of the Nations
1944 · Movie
At Land
1944 · Movie
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943 · Movie
The River of Life and Death
1941 · Movie
The Forgotten Village
1941 · Movie
Crisis
1939 · Movie
The Highway Sings
1937 · Movie
Listopad
1935 · Movie
...and Life Goes On
1935 · Movie
A Little Shoe
1935 · Movie
A New Song
1935 · Movie
School Assignment
1935 · Movie
We Live in Prague
1934 · Movie
The Earth Sings
1933 · Movie
Conversion of Ferdys Pistora
1932 · Movie
The Robber
1931 · Movie
From Saturday to Sunday
1931 · Movie
The Prague Castle
1931 · Movie
Armored Car
1930 · Movie
Erotikon
1930 · Movie
Aimless Walk
1930 · Movie
Spring in Carpathian Ruthenia
1929 · Movie