SEESAW PICTURES

A WOMAN AND CIRCLES/2003-2004/35mm/black & white and color/found film/sound/9:38

In 1930 while living in Paris, Polish avant-garde poet Jan Brzekowski wrote a short non-narrative film script titled "A Woman and Circles" in the French magazine "Cercle et Carree" (The script was later translated into Polish and published in "Linia.").

This non-narrative film reveals a random succession of negative and positive images preceded by a glowing circle that overtakes the film frame then reduces to two smaller bouncing balls that later become minuet dancers. While using found footagefrom 1960's instructional films like "What is Rain?" AWAC is not considered a remake or reconstruction - Brzekowski never produced his film.

A WOMAN AND CIRCLES was filmed using a 1940's hand wound 35mm camera with black and white film stock from the period in which the script was originallypublished.

Directed by BRUCE CHECEFSKY