Doctor Hypnosin, or the Technique of Living

A re-creation of a 1933 commercial, lost during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw, animates photograms of light-pierced jewelry, porcelain, and glass to music by Ravel.

Bruce Checefsky's film attempts to realize the central conceit of Léopold Survage's series Rythme coloré (1913), setting the painter's unfulfilled idea into motion.

Using a vintage 35mm camera, the director re-creates the unmade film script of a Polish poet living in Paris in the 1930s. Revealing successions of negative and positive images, the figurative and abstract film pays homage to a surrealist and poetic vision.