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 jewelry, porcelain and glass were animated to music by Ravel which was destroyed during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. Checefsky’s Moment Musical is based on published reviews from the 1930s Polish press, original film stills, and notes from Stefan and Franciszka Themerson. The film was shot with American experimental filmmaker Robert C. Banks, Jr.