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Alexander Hammid is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Assistant Director, Camera Operator, Editor, Production Design and Cinematography American born on 17 december 1907 at Linz (Austria)

Alexander Hammid

Alexander Hammid
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Nationality USA
Birth 17 december 1907 at Linz (Austria)
Death 26 july 2004 (at 96 years) at New York City (USA)

Alexander Hammid ou Alexander Hackenschmied est un réalisateur de documentaire et photographe tchèque né le 17 décembre 1907 et mort le 26 juillet 2004 à New York.

Usually with

Maya Deren
Maya Deren
(3 films)
Gustav Machatý
Gustav Machatý
(3 films)
Jiří Voskovec
Jiří Voskovec
(1 films)
Leif Erickson
Leif Erickson
(1 films)
Greg MacGillivray
Greg MacGillivray
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Alexander Hammid (15 films)

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Actor

In the Mirror of Maya Deren
In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2002)
, 1h43
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, Jonas Mekas, Graeme Ferguson, Alexander Hammid, Judith Malina
Roles Himself
Rating72% 3.629653.629653.629653.629653.62965
Ce documentaire retrace la biographie surprenante de l'artiste légendaire Maya Deren. Née à Kiev en 1917, elle devint un personnage central de l'avant-garde américaine après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Surtout connue pour son travail anticonformiste dans le film expérimental, elle était très active dans d'autres domaines politiques et culturels : elle fut poète, danseuse, et par-dessus tout une ethnographe renommée et une adepte des pratiques vaudou.
At Land
At Land (1944)
, 15minutes
Directed by Maya Deren
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy
Actors Alexander Hammid, Maya Deren, John Cage
Rating74% 3.7428753.7428753.7428753.7428753.742875
At the beginning of the film, a woman is lying on a beach as if she has been washed up by the ocean. She climbs a tree with some difficulty, but when she finally reaches the top, she finds herself at the end of a long dining room table during a bourgeois dinner party. All the guests ignore her as she drags herself on top of the table and pulls herself across it, trying to reach a man (played by graphic designer Alvin Lustig) at the opposite end who looks deeply concentrated on a chess game. When she finally gets to the man, he stands up and leaves the table; she looks disappointed and hopeless.
Meshes of the Afternoon
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
, 14minutes
Directed by Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Crime
Actors Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Roles The Man
Rating77% 3.897763.897763.897763.897763.89776
A woman sees someone on the street as she is walking back to her home. She goes to her room and sleeps on a chair. As soon as she is asleep, she experiences a dream in which she repeatedly tries to chase a mysterious hooded figure with a mirror for a face but is unable to catch it. With each failure, she re-enters her house and sees numerous household objects including a key, a knife, a flower, a telephone and a phonograph. The woman follows the hooded figure to her bedroom where she sees the figure hide the knife under a pillow. Throughout the story, she sees multiple instances of herself, all bits of her dream that she has already experienced. The woman tries to kill her sleeping body with a knife but is awakened by a man. The man leads her to the bedroom and she realizes that everything she saw in the dream was actually happening. She notices that the man's posture is similar to that of the hooded figure when it hid the knife under the pillow. She attempts to injure him and fails. Towards the end, the man walks into the house and sees a broken mirror being dropped onto wet ground. He then sees the woman in the chair, who was previously sleeping, but is now dead.

Director

Meshes of the Afternoon
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
, 14minutes
Directed by Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Crime
Actors Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Rating77% 3.897763.897763.897763.897763.89776
A woman sees someone on the street as she is walking back to her home. She goes to her room and sleeps on a chair. As soon as she is asleep, she experiences a dream in which she repeatedly tries to chase a mysterious hooded figure with a mirror for a face but is unable to catch it. With each failure, she re-enters her house and sees numerous household objects including a key, a knife, a flower, a telephone and a phonograph. The woman follows the hooded figure to her bedroom where she sees the figure hide the knife under a pillow. Throughout the story, she sees multiple instances of herself, all bits of her dream that she has already experienced. The woman tries to kill her sleeping body with a knife but is awakened by a man. The man leads her to the bedroom and she realizes that everything she saw in the dream was actually happening. She notices that the man's posture is similar to that of the hooded figure when it hid the knife under the pillow. She attempts to injure him and fails. Towards the end, the man walks into the house and sees a broken mirror being dropped onto wet ground. He then sees the woman in the chair, who was previously sleeping, but is now dead.
The Forgotten Village
The Forgotten Village (1941)
, 1h7
Directed by Alexander Hammid
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Actors Burgess Meredith
Rating66% 3.346433.346433.346433.346433.34643

Scriptwriter

Producer

The Forgotten Village
The Forgotten Village (1941)
, 1h7
Directed by Alexander Hammid
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Actors Burgess Meredith
Roles Producer
Rating66% 3.346433.346433.346433.346433.34643

Director

Meshes of the Afternoon
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
, 14minutes
Directed by Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Crime
Actors Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Roles Co-Director
Rating77% 3.897763.897763.897763.897763.89776
A woman sees someone on the street as she is walking back to her home. She goes to her room and sleeps on a chair. As soon as she is asleep, she experiences a dream in which she repeatedly tries to chase a mysterious hooded figure with a mirror for a face but is unable to catch it. With each failure, she re-enters her house and sees numerous household objects including a key, a knife, a flower, a telephone and a phonograph. The woman follows the hooded figure to her bedroom where she sees the figure hide the knife under a pillow. Throughout the story, she sees multiple instances of herself, all bits of her dream that she has already experienced. The woman tries to kill her sleeping body with a knife but is awakened by a man. The man leads her to the bedroom and she realizes that everything she saw in the dream was actually happening. She notices that the man's posture is similar to that of the hooded figure when it hid the knife under the pillow. She attempts to injure him and fails. Towards the end, the man walks into the house and sees a broken mirror being dropped onto wet ground. He then sees the woman in the chair, who was previously sleeping, but is now dead.
Ecstasy
Ecstasy (1933)
, 1h22
Directed by Gustav Machatý
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Hedy Lamarr, Aribert Mog, Pierre Nay, Zvonimir Rogoz, Jiřina Steimarová, Jan Sviták
Roles Assistant Director
Rating65% 3.295043.295043.295043.295043.29504
Emil (Zvonimir Rogoz), a precise, orderly older man, carries his happy new bride Eva (Hedy Lamarr) over the threshold of their home. (He has great difficulty opening the lock on the front door, trying key after key.) She is greatly disappointed on her wedding night; he does not even come to bed. After living in the unconsummated marriage for a while, she cannot bear it any longer and runs back to her father (Leopold Kramer), a horse breeder. A divorce is issued.