26.11.2025{"id":27704,"date":"2025-11-26T18:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2025\/exhibition-shadow-tamers-on-the-art-of-the-pinscreen\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T15:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:19:02","slug":"exhibition-shadow-tamers-on-the-art-of-the-pinscreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2025\/en\/exhibition-shadow-tamers-on-the-art-of-the-pinscreen\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition Shadow Tamers: On the art of the pinscreen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/strong>An exhibition dedicated to Jacques Drouin (1943\u20132021)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slovenian Cinematheque
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This exhibition explores the unique animation technique invented in 1931 by Alexandre Alexe\u00efeff and Claire Parker to bring shadows and engravings to life. Through historical materials, documents, and contemporary works, Shadow Tamers traces the journey of the pinscreen \u2014 from its invention in Paris to its creative legacy at the National Film Board of Canada and its revival in France and around the world today.<\/p>\n

You can read more about this year’s retrospective here<\/a><\/strong><\/u>.<\/p>\n

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Photo: \u00a9 CNC Collections<\/p>\n

Cover photo: Alexandre Alexe\u00efeff and Claire Parker during the making of the prologue to Three Moods (Prologue de Trois Th\u00e8mes, 1980). @ FRL productions
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The exhibition Shadow Tamers at the Slovenian Cinematheque presents a unique animation technique for bringing shadows and engravings to life, invented in 1931 by Alexandre Alexe\u00efeff and Claire Parker, and thus serves as an accompanying exhibition to this year’s retrospective of the pinscreen technique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-templates\/post_full.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27704"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27725,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27704\/revisions\/27725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animateka.si\/2025\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}