Posts Tagged ‘Franciszka and Stefan Themerson’
The Eye and the Ear
UK, 1945, black and white, 11 mins. Of Franciszka and Stefan Themerson's three surviving films, The Eye and the Ear is much the most successful, and one can only regret that their extensive interests in other fields precluded them making any more in a similar vein. As the title implies, and the explanatory intertitles explain in [...]
Calling Mr Smith
UK, 1944, black and white, 8 minsThe first of two films made by the husband-and-wife team of Franciszka and Stefan Themerson in Britain towards the end of World War II, Calling Mr Smith is a visually virtuosic, despairingly bleak piece of anti-Nazi propaganda that tries to open British audiences' eyes not merely to the physical destruction of [...]
The Adventure of a Good Citizen
Przygoda człowieka poczciwego Poland, 1937, black and white, 10 minsThe last of five films made by the husband-and-wife team of Franciszka and Stefan Themerson in their native Poland, The Adventure of a Good Citizen is the only one to have survived World War II - indeed, it's one of the few remaining examples of what by all accounts was a [...]