Eugène Deslaw

Little is known on the life of Eugene Deslaw. He was born in Tahantcha (Ukraine), emigrated to Czechoslovakia in the 20’s were he met filmmaker Zet Molas. He then joined the Czech vanguard movement. He did very little work, in which he explored modern preoccupations:

-Machine poetry (La Marche de machines, 1929)
-Fascination for cities and artificial life (Les nuits electriques, 1929)
-Exploration on the possibilities of the plastic medium (Negatif, 1930)

He also had a morbid tendency towards the dark side of modern life, deformity and decomposition (Montparnasse)

After doing an experimental documentary on the shoot of Abel Gance’s “La fin du Monde”, Deslaw was forgotten with the arrival of sound in cinema.

He died in 1966.