Born in Poland, Themerson was initially a Warsaw painter who also made an avant-garde film, Europa (1931), that subsequently disappeared. Working with his wife Franciszka (1907–88), according to the Encyclopedia of European Cinema (1995), They invented an apparatus for making photograms in motion, scratched and painted on film, and fused animation and photomontage with live action.
After serving in the Polish army in France during World War II, Stefan Themerson escaped to England, where he resided...
THEMERSON, Stefan
(1910–1988)