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THEMERSON AND THEMERSON

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She was a dreamer, he was a thinker. He had a question, She was the answer. Two people, once met and created the poetry of life, inspired generations of artists in Europe, Roman Polanski was one of them.

Franciszka and Stefan Themerson lived and worked together over sixty years first in Poland, France, England. It’s well hidden treasure in the culture and art of the XX century. Though they don’t remember how they met, they made films together. Her lines often gave life to his imagination. Their unusual love story is the backdrop to the art and story of these two exceptional citizens of the world.


FILM REPRESENTED BY KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION

GENRE:
documentary
COUNTRY:
Polska
RUNNING TIME:
71'
YEAR:
DIRECTING:
Wiktoria Szymańska
SCRIPT:
Wiktoria Szymańska
DOP:
Wojciech Staroń
EDITOR:
Ewa Lenkiewicz
MUSIC:
Felix Rigg
PRODUCTION:
Luna W.

Wiktoria Szymańska »

Writer and film director with background as a painter and visual artist, was born in Poland, grew up in UK, studied in France, and now works between Germany, Poland, France, Mexico and Tanzania. Her film "Themerson and Themerson" (2011) has been celebrated around the world as one of the best documentary about art. Her "The man who made angels fly" (2013) won IDFA Industry Award and premiered at Karlove Vary and Hot Docs. Wiktoria also made shorts and video installations about dance and female bodies. In 2014 she made a series of visual poems for Channel4 "Women in the cities". Wiktoria is a graduate of the Arts Plastique Sorbonne and Wajda School in Warsaw. She also took part in Eurodoc, Esodoc and Archidoc - La Femis. She was a a fellow of Nipkow program and British Arts Council Award and worked for many European Tvs. Her documentaries are coproduced by ARTE, Channel4, SVT, YLE, BBC, AVRO, TVP, NHK, supported by Arts Council, Creative Europe, PISF, CNC, and regional funds in France and Poland.
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