Moment Musical
Remake of Stefan and Franciszka Themerson’s first sound film, Moment Musical (1933), a three-minute commercial in which photograms of light-pierced jewellery, porcelain and glass were animated to music by Ravel which was destroyed during the German occupation of Warsaw. Like his earlier project Pharmacy, Checefsky’s Moment Musical is based on published reviews from the 1930s Polish press, original film stills, and notes from Stefan and Franciszka Themerson.
Also in this combined programme
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Dockum Mobilcolour performance at the Guggenheim museum
Unique registration from 1952 of a performance by Charles Dockum with his light organ, the Mobilcolor. -
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Blue Light
A widescreen projection of a meditative field of blue grain, created with a fine mist of paint. -
Le petit mort
Semi-abstract video with crackling blaze of light that can be both gruesome and beautiful. -
Flicker
Eyes open and keep looking into the blinding source of light that reduces figures and objects in this film to narrow silhouettes. All there is… -
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Radar
Beams of light cutting through space, edited from a large number of feature films, sporadically lighting the way to nowhere.
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2006
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm