Director: Alexander Alexeieff   Claire Parker

Footage: 8min

Year: 1933

导演: Alexander Alexeieff    Claire Parker

片长: 8分钟

出品时间: 1933

The soundtrack is Modest Mussorgsky's composition, Saint John's Eve on Bald Mountain, which inspired by Russian literary works and legend on the theme of a witches' sabbath.

Alexeieff projected it onto the screen with pinscreen animation which invented by himself in 1931. This loosely structured approach presents both delightful and at times horrifying imagery, a scarecrow blows down, animals flee, a horse gallops by, a woman's figure tumbles through space. Forms appear and become grotesque. The phantasmagoric is everywhere

The pinboard on which Alexeieff created his extraordinary black and white films is an upright perforated board, into which a million headless steel pins have been inserted. The pins can be raised or lowered, so as to produce precise shadows.

电影音乐是Modest Mussorgsky的作品《荒山上的圣约翰之夜》，它取材于俄罗斯文学作品和民间传说，主题是女巫的安息日。

Alexeieff用自己于1931年发明的针幕动画将它再现于电影银幕上。影片结构松散，既轻松愉悦，有时也令人恐惧。稻草人被吹倒，动物四散，一匹马疾驰而去，一个女人在空中翻转着。各种形状不停出现，然后向怪诞变化，处处琢磨不定。

Alexeieff创作黑白电影使用的针板是一个竖立的穿孔板，百万根钢针插在上面。钢针可以升高或降低，从而制造精确光影。

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