# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexandr-hackenschmied
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:23:07.877Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexandr-hackenschmied"
name: "Alexandr Hackenschmied"
slug: "alexandr-hackenschmied"
description: "Alexandr Hackenschmied, born Alexander Siegfried George Hackenschmied, known later as Alexander Hammid, was a Czech-American photographer, film director, cinematographer and film editor. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1938 and became involved in American avant-garde cinema. He is best known for three films: Crisis (1939), Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) and To Be Alive! (1964). He made Meshes of the Afternoon with Maya Deren, to whom he was married from 1942 to 1947. His second marriage was to the photographer Hella Heyman, who had also collaborated with Hammid and Deren on several films."
tagline: "American film director, photographer, actor, film editor and cinematographer (1907-2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_Hammid_-_Meshes_of_the_Afternoon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1907-12-17"
deathDate: "2004-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.33
  momentum:             3.757225433526012
  historical:           8.367605333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0352413/"
    handle:    "nm0352413"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandr_Hackenschmied"
    title: "Alexandr Hackenschmied"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF"
    title: "اليكساندر هاكينستشميد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%95%D9%84%DB%8E%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%DB%95%D8%B1_%DA%BE%D8%A7%DA%A9%D9%86%D8%B4%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AF"
    title: "ئەلێکساندەر ھاکنشمید"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hackenschmied"
    title: "Alexander Hackenschmied"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hammid"
    title: "Alexander Hammid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandr_Hackenschmied"
    title: "Alexandr Hackenschmied"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%87%DA%A9%D9%86%E2%80%8C%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AF"
    title: "الکساندر هکن‌اشمید"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hammid"
    title: "Alexander Hammid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Hammid"
    title: "Alexander Hammid"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357624"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/96814"
    title: "Alexander Hammid"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump