SEESAW PICTURES

PHARMACY/2001/35mm/black and white abstract photogram film/silent/4:36

PHARMACY is based on Stefan and Francizsk Themersons influential 1930 abstract photogram film APTEKA. The Themerson’s are considered the most influential filmmakers of the Polish avant-garde of pre-WWII Europe.

A stunning black and white abstract film, Pharmacy is a chaotic, anarchicassemblage of chemistry lab measuring cups and spoons, various size test tubes,tweezers, eyeglasses, and a cornucopia of transparent pharmaceutical equipment seen asshadows only.

Filmed in Budapest using a 1930s single frame camera, black and white film, and a reconstruction of the Themerson’s trick table based on an original drawing made byStefan Themerson in the 1970’s.

Directed by BRUCE CHECEFSKY