![]() ![]() Following the outbreak of the War Franciszka emigrated to London, where she was joined by Stefan in 1942. In the winter of 1937-38 they moved to Paris. They first entered Warsaw’s art scene in the late 1920s, incorporating photography, film, and illustrations into their all-encompassing experimental vision. ![]() ![]() Although Europa was considered lost early in the War, its impact on contemporaries was so powerful that those who had seen it continued to discuss its importance its rediscovery fills a crucial gap in the history of experimental cinema.įranciszka Themerson, née Weinles (1907-1988) and Stefan Themerson (1910-1988) were artists whose transdisciplinary approach was central to their oeuvre. In 2019 the film was identified in the Bundesarchiv by Anna Bobczuk, a researcher from the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, in two copies: the 35mm nitrate left by the filmmakers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson in 1940, and a preservation print made by the Bundesarchiv. Stolen by the Nazis in 1940 from the Vitfer Film Laboratory following the occupation of Paris, the original nitrate was placed in the Reichsfilmarchiv, and by the 1950s, unbeknownst to researchers, was in the collection of East Germany’s Staatliches Filmarchiv. Yet few could have expected this poetic short, long considered lost, to resurface nearly 90 years after its premiere. Europa is a near-legendary work among pre-war avant-garde films whose far-reaching influence inspired a wealth of interpretations and reconstructions. ![]()
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