SEESAW Pictures
Making the Lost and Unmade: The Films of Bruce Checefsky examines the lost and unmade works of four important avant-garde experimental Polish filmmakers: STEFAN THEMERSON, (Plock, Poland 1910 – London 1988), FRANCISZKA THEMERSON (Warsaw 1907 – London 1988), JAN BRZEKOWSKI (1903 – 1983), and ANDRZEJ PAWLOWSKI (1925 – 1986). The presentation includes a brief history and critical analysis of their films, and a special screening of recent remakes based on the originals. The screened films include Pharmacy (2001), A Woman and Circles (2003), INNI [OTHERS] (2005), and MOMENT MUSICAL (2006), Stefan and Francizska Themersons significant first sound experimental film.
PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
Monsieur Phot (1933)
The American artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) is most famous for his boxes filled with an array of found objects and images. Initially influenced by Surrealists, Cornell was also a devoted fan of the cinema. In 1933, he wrote a scenario for a silent movie, Monsieur Phot. A few years later, he made his first film, Rose Hobart (1936), comprised of re-edited footage from the B-movie, East of Borneo (1931), which starred the actress, Rose Hobart. And he began work on a trilogy of collage films - The Children's Party, Cotillion, and The Midnight Party (circa 1937).
Accordo di colore and Studio de effetti tra Quattro colori (1910)
In 1910, Arnoldo Ginna and Bruno Corra experimented in abstract cinema and their avant-garde approach influenced Futuristic cinema. In 1912, Corra published his manifesto Abstract Cinema – Chromatic Music in which he described his work with his brother called a pianoforte chromatic, or chromatic piano and composed several ‘sonatas of color’ by translating a Venetian barcolle by Mendelssohn, a rondo by Chopin, and a Mozart sonata.
SEVEN DREAMS (The Factory of Man, 1937)
SEVEN DREAMS is based on a film scenario titled Factory of Man written in 1937 by astrophysicist, depth-psychologist and philosopher Jeremi M. F. Wasiutyski (1907–2005). Waisutynski’s scenario is a half-symbolic and half-grotesque image of 1930's Europe. It can be looked at as a naïve imaginative effort undertaken by a man of a distant and better future as he reads a chronicle of his tormented era.
In SEVEN DREAMS, the main character is haunted by seven dreams that take place over the course of several days that foretell of a future overrun by large corporations and political-religious crusades.
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