{"id":5934,"date":"2022-04-29T21:42:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T19:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2022-09-23T07:42:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:42:15","slug":"franciszka-and-stefan-themersons-retrospective-at-the-cinematheque-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2022\/04\/29\/franciszka-and-stefan-themersons-retrospective-at-the-cinematheque-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"Franciszka and Stefan Themerson&#8217;s retrospective at the Cinematheque Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.thecinematheque.ca\/websales\/pages\/TicketSearchCriteria.aspx?evtinfo=327925~c720b4d8-2524-4617-94b4-09d7b2ffa465&amp;\"><strong>May 16&nbsp;(Monday)&nbsp;6:30<\/strong><\/a> PM PDT<br><a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.thecinematheque.ca\/websales\/pages\/TicketSearchCriteria.aspx?evtinfo=328315~c720b4d8-2524-4617-94b4-09d7b2ffa465&amp;\"><strong>May 23&nbsp;(Monday)&nbsp;8:45<\/strong><\/a> PM PDT<br><a href=\"https:\/\/tickets.thecinematheque.ca\/websales\/pages\/TicketSearchCriteria.aspx?evtinfo=327926~c720b4d8-2524-4617-94b4-09d7b2ffa465&amp;\"><strong>May 26&nbsp;(Thursday)&nbsp;6:30<\/strong><\/a> PM PDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cinemateque Vancouver<\/strong><br>1131 Howe Street, Vancouver<br>Tickets &#8211; $14<br><a href=\"https:\/\/thecinematheque.ca\/films\/2022\/s-f-themerson\"><strong>See the event on Cinematheque Vancouver&#8217;s website<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Europa<\/strong>, Poland 1931, Stefan Themerson, Franciszka Themerson, 12&nbsp;min.&nbsp;DCP<br><strong>Adventures of a&nbsp;Good Citizen<\/strong>, Poland 1937,Stefan Themerson, Franciszka Themerson, 9&nbsp;min.&nbsp;DCP<br><strong>Calling Mr.&nbsp;Smith<\/strong>, Great Britain 1943, Stefan Themerson, Franciszka Themerson, 10&nbsp;min.&nbsp;DCP<br><strong>The Eye and the&nbsp;Ear<\/strong>, Great Britain 1945, Stefan Themerson, Franciszka Themerson,1 0&nbsp;min.&nbsp;DCP<br><strong>Pharmacy<\/strong>, USA&nbsp;2001, Bruce Checefsky, 4&nbsp;min.&nbsp;DCP<br><strong>Moment Musical<\/strong>, USA&nbsp;2006, Bruce Checefsky, 6&nbsp;min.&nbsp;DCP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/04\/Music-Moment-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5937\" width=\"646\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/04\/Music-Moment-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/04\/Music-Moment-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/04\/Music-Moment-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/04\/Music-Moment-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/04\/Music-Moment-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Surrealist husband-wife duo Stefan and Franciszka Themerson were pioneers of the Polish cinematic avant garde of the 1930s. Stefan, an architecture student, and Franciszka, a&nbsp;fine-art student, met in Warsaw in the late 1920s and began an innovative, collaborative film practice that parlayed trick photography, photograms, and collage techniques into radical works of experimental moving-image art. The Themersons (married in 1931) galvanized a&nbsp;community of intellectuals and DIY artists around them; they co-founded, in 1935, the Film Authors\u2019 Co-operative (SAF), a&nbsp;hub of underground film culture, and published a&nbsp;short-lived journal devoted to avant-garde cinema. Of the five films they created in the prewar period,&nbsp;Europa, made in 1931, was their masterpiece: a&nbsp;kinetic, 12-minute condemnation of creeping fascism across Europe, based on Anatol Stern\u2019s 1929 futurist poem. Until 2019, it was thought lost forever.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/04\/Europa-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5936\" width=\"479\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/04\/Europa-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/04\/Europa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/04\/Europa-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/04\/Europa-1536x1153.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/04\/Europa.jpg 1772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deposited for safekeeping at the Vitfer Film Laboratory in Paris (the city the couple relocated to in 1938),&nbsp;Europa&nbsp;was seized by the Nazis during the occupation and presumed destroyed. Miraculously, some eighty years later\u2014and owing to the tenacity of Franciska\u2019s niece (curator Jasia Reichardt) and Poland\u2019s Pilecki Institute\u2014a print was discovered in Germany\u2019s national archive. (Three other S.&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;F. works, also looted by the Nazis, remain missing.)Restored and featuring a&nbsp;newly commissioned soundtrack by Dutch musician-musicologist Lodewijk Muns,&nbsp;Europa,&nbsp;\u200b\u201ca holy grail of Polish experimental cinema\u201d (MoMA), forms the centrepiece of a&nbsp;51-minute tribute to the trailblazing Polish avant-gardists, who both died in 1988&nbsp;in London, their adopted home. The program, presented in partnership with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/\">Polish Cultural Institute New York<\/a>, also includes their three other surviving shorts (two of which were made in Britain during the war), as well as reconstructions, by artist Bruce Checefsky, of a&nbsp;pair of their still-lost early&nbsp;films.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/04\/image-1024x751.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5935\" width=\"559\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/04\/image-1024x751.png 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/04\/image-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/04\/image-768x563.png 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/04\/image-1536x1127.png 1536w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/04\/image-2048x1503.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-24-at-1.20.04-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6075\" width=\"196\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-24-at-1.20.04-PM.png 352w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-24-at-1.20.04-PM-300x56.png 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-24-at-1.20.04-PM-350x66.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 16&nbsp;(Monday)&nbsp;6:30 PM PDTMay 23&nbsp;(Monday)&nbsp;8:45 PM PDTMay 26&nbsp;(Thursday)&nbsp;6:30 PM PDT Cinemateque Vancouver1131 Howe Street, VancouverTickets &#8211; 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