BRUCE CHECEFSKY is an artist/photographer specializing in photograms. His works have been presented in solo exhibitions in numerous countries such as the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, and Ukraine. His film realizations include:
Pharmacy (Budapest, 2001, b/w, silent, 4:40 min., with award-winning animator and film writer Laszlo L. Revesz), his remake of the first successfully completed avant-garde film in Poland, a 1930 film Apteka by Stefan and Franciszka Themerson lost during the war (1930, b/w, silent, 3 minutes). In his photograms he uses some of the techniques of those versatile avant-gardists. The film was shown among others at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the 32nd International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2003. More: http://www.polishculture-nyc.org
A Woman And Circles (SeeSaw Studio LLC, Cleveland, Ohio, 2003, b/w, 11:29 min., music: Witold Lutoslawski's Piano Concerto), a film based on a published but unproduced 1930 script by the surrealist Polish poet Jan Brzekowski, produced with partial support from the Polish Cultural Institute, NYC. The film premiered at the 28th Cleveland International Film Festival, 2004, and was later shown at the 34th International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2005. More: http://www.polishculture-nyc.org/
IN NI (Others), (CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, 2005, b/w, 22:00 min., music by Polish contemporary composer Pawel Mykietyn), a film based on a script by Andrzej Pawlowski Inni.
Bruce Checefsky lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio, where he is director of the Reinberger Galleries, Cleveland Institute of Art, and has organized and curated numerous exhibitions there.
