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Stefan Themerson
American
1910–1988
January 25, 1910 |
Born
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Plock |
1928–29 |
Studies physics at the University of Warsaw and architecture at the Warsaw Polytechnic
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Warsaw |
1929 |
Creates his first photograms and writes about film as a regular columnist for Polska Zbrojna
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Warsaw |
1929 |
Franciszka and Stefan meet and begin collaborating
Stefan creates what he will later call a "trick table,"a device that remains a central tool in their filmmaking process. Stefan describes the effect as "photograms in motion."
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Warsaw |
1930 |
Stefan and Franciszka Themerson collaborate on their first film, Apteka (Pharmacy), shown at the Association of Lovers of Art Film (START)
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Warsaw |
1930s–50s |
Stefan writes and Franciska illustrates approximately 14 books for children
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Paris Warsaw London |
1931 |
Franciszka and Stefan marry
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Warsaw |
1933 |
Stefan and Franciszka Themerson create a short commissioned film, Moment Musical, their first film to utilize sound
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Warsaw |
1935 |
Stefan and Franciszka Themerson establish the filmmakers cooperative Spółdzielnia Autorów Filmowych (SAF)
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Warsaw |
1936–37 |
Writes and publishes The Urge to Create Visions
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Paris Warsaw |
1936–early 37 |
Stefan and Franciszka Themerson travel to London and Paris, where they meet filmmakers and artists including László Moholy-Nagy, René Clair, Basil Wright, and Fernand Léger
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Paris London |
Early 1937 |
Stefan and Franciszka Themerson organize the first screenings in Poland of European avant-garde films, including some by the artists they met in Paris and London
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Warsaw |
Winter 1937–mid 1940 |
Stefan and Franciszka Themerson live in Paris
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Paris |
1940 |
Recruited into a Polish infantry regiment
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Paris |
1940–42 |
When the army regiment disbands, he makes his way to Vichy France and spends more than a year in the Polish Red Cross hostel
At the hostel, he writes Professor Mmaa's Lecture.
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France Voiron |
1942–45 |
Stefan and Franciszka Themerson reunite and make two films for the Film Unit of the Polish Ministry of Information and Documentation
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London |
1944–88 |
Lives in Maida Vale, London
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London |
1948–79 |
Stefan and Franciszka Themerson found the Gaberbocchus Press
The press publishes the first English editions of writings by Alfred Jarry, Kurt Schwitters, Raymond Queneau, Bertrand Russell, and other English writers and poets, along with Stefan's own works and Franciszka's drawings.
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London |
September 6, 1988 |
Dies
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London |