Alexander Hammid (Actor)

Reviews of Alexander Hammid Movies

Looking for reviews of Alexander Hammid movies? Cinafilm has a total of 177 reviews across 4 movies.

Movies starring Alexander Hammid have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 75%.

Meshes of the Afternoon - released in 1943 - is Alexander Hammid's highest rated movie, with a score of 80% based on 131 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Alexander Hammid is Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film - released in 2011 - with a score of 65% based on 6 reviews.

Actor 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.

Alexander Hammid has acted in films with Maya Deren, Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage and John Lennon.

Alexander Hammid has worked with these film directors: Maya Deren, Pip Chodorov and Martina Kudlácek.