{"id":13740,"date":"2017-11-24T20:10:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T19:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etiudaandanima.com\/?p=13740"},"modified":"2017-11-24T20:15:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T19:15:12","slug":"the-themersons-the-art-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundacja.etiudaandanima.pl\/en\/news\/the-themersons-the-art-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Themersons - the art of life"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday there will be a screening of the Themersons\u2019 films.\u00a0 The couple\u2019s work largely contributed to the film avant-garde movement which took place in the first half of the 20th<\/sup> century. We invite you to Pauza in Garden as well where you can see an exhibition called \u201c<\/strong>Franciszka and<\/strong> Stefan Themerson. The urge<\/strong> to create visions \u2013 scene 5\u201d.<\/strong>
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\u2018Nature gave us vocal chords but neglected to give us a light-producing organ. We had to build it ourselves: The projective luminiferous eye.\u2019<\/p>\n

Stefan Themerson, The Urge to Create Visions<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201eThe Adventures of a Good Citizen\u201d (1937)<\/strong><\/p>\n

This film was lost during the war. One print was found somewhere near Moscow and sent to the Film Archive in Warsaw. The print was old and badly battered. Hence the quality of the present reduction from the original 35mm to 16mm is not perfect. But it could have been worse. There are two sentences spoken in Polish. At the beginning the CARPENTER shouts to one of the two men with a wardrobe: \u2018The sky won\u2019t fall in if you walk backwards!\u2019 This is overheard (over the telephone) by THE GOOD CITIZEN (a civil servant) who also decides to try walking backwards. In the street, he collides with TWO MEN WITH THE WARDROBE, and now it is he and one of the other two who carry the wardrobe backwards out of the town and into the forest. A group of people (representing a cross-section of society) march with banners to protest against walking backwards. Inscriptions on the banners read: DOWN WITH WALKING BACKWARDS! THE SKY WILL FALL IN! FORWARD MARCH, EVERYBODY! The Polish words appearing at the end of the film mean: ONE MUST UNDERSTAND THE METAPHOR, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. \u2014 S.T.<\/p>\n

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\u201eCalling Mr Smith\u201d (1943)<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1938 Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, leading figures in Polish avant-garde cinema, left Warsaw for Paris. In 1942 they came to England and worked for the rest of the war in the Film Unit of the Polish Ministry of Information and Documentation in London. \u201cCalling Mr Smith\u201d, made in 1943, calls on \u2018Mr Smith\u2019 to support the war effort as an anti-fascist struggle, illustrating its appeal with examples of Nazi oppression in Poland.<\/p>\n

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\u201eThe Eye& The Ear\u201d (1937)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Four types of visual interpretation of four songs by Karol Szymanowski, Polish words by Julian Tuwim.<\/p>\n

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There will also be a screening of two documentary movies about the Themersons:<\/p>\n

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\u201eStephan + Franciszka\u201d (1975, dir. Tomasz Pob\u00f3g-Malinowski)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Author of a film presents the Themersons and their artistc output. It is the only documentary film made during the artists\u2019 lives.
\n\u201eStefan Themerson and Language\u201d (1976, dir. Erik van Zuylen)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The film is an attempt at providing the explanation of the idea of semantic poetry. Its protagonist is Stefan Themerson, a poet. A detective (K. Schippers) is leading an investigation on this unusual poetry genre and its author. A docudrama in which the author acquaints the audience with some of the concepts of Stefan Themerson\u2019s philosophy of la anguage by means of a dialogue. The film makes use of fragments of a novel \u201dBayamus\u201d (1945).<\/p>\n

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25th November (Saturday), 08.00 pm.<\/strong>
\nMalopolska Garden of Arts \u2013 Small Screening Room <\/strong>
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Exhibition \u201cFranciszka and Stefan Themerson. The urge to create visions \u2013 scene 5\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The exhibition presents the film output of Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, the most important representatives of the film avantgarde of 1930s and 1940s. The exhibition comprises photograms and collages (made since 1928) from which it all started.<\/p>\n

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2-30 November 2017<\/strong>
\nPauza In Garden, 12 Rajska Street<\/strong><\/p>\n

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