Alexander Hammid
Personal information
- Known for
- Directing
- Known credits
- 51
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- December 17, 1907
- Died
- July 26, 2004
- Place of birth
- Linz, Austria
- Also known as
- Alexandr HackenschmiedAlexander HackenschmiedSasha HammittSasha HammidAlexander Siegfried George Hackenschmied
Biography
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.
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Filmography
Directing
27 titles
Camera
13 titles1946
1941
1935
Editing
12 titles1957
1956
1939
Acting
8 titles
1944
