Zbigniew Rybczyński

Director

January 27, 1949 (77 years)

Łódź, Poland

Biography

Zbigniew Rybczyński (Polish: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf rɨpˈt͡ʂɨj̃skʲi]; born 27 January 1949) is a Polish filmmaker, director, cinematographer, screenwriter, creator of experimental animated films, and multimedia artist who has won numerous prestigious industry awards both in the United States and internationally including the 1983 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Tango. He has taught cinematography and digital cinematography, and has worked as a researcher of blue and greenscreen compositing tec…

Filmography

7.5

Tango

A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, looping further through an absurd dance of social disconnection as each character moves in.

7.0

Steps

A tourist group is shown the latest in Soviet virtual reality technology through the Potemkin.

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The World's Greatest Animation

A whirlwind tour of first-class animated shorts, The World's Greatest Animation assembles, for the first time, an eye-popping assortment of Academy Award winners and nominees from the years 1978-90. From the Orwellian vision of zoo life Creature Comforts, to Crac!, a rocking chair's impressionistic view of the industrialization of Montréal, The World's Greatest Animation features some of the finest achievements in this unique art form.

6.9

New Book

Nine cameras set up in a local neighborhood are displayed simultaneously as a man buys a new book.

8.0

Skiing Scenes With Franz Klammer

A 'creative documentary' about an Austrian skier who was known during the 70s. Examined from a biographical / visual standpoint.

6.2

Media

A film editor's setup. A man plays with a balloon.

10.0

Kafka

Against a set which has been designed in a Kafkaesque and claustrophobic way, Rybczynski has recreated a World of Kafka which corresponds well with Kafka's maze-like novels. It is an abstract and unpredictable world where Kafka himself moves between the scenes of his own stories, from America via The Castle to Metamorphosis, and The Trial is of course the frame story throughout. Rybczynski has chosen to portray Josef K as an alter ego. Other characters become members of his own family, which means that Rybczynski makes a kind of exemplary, depth psychological close reading of his work.

5.3

Way to Your Neighbor

A weary traveller falls asleep next to a sign reading Weg zum Nachbarn. As soon as he dozes off the world turns on its head.

5.3

Holiday

Film unfolds in five sequences, each depicting a facet of Barbórka celebrations—from the miners’ orchestra wake-up call and the medal-awarding academy through evening feasting and dancing. Folk traditions mingle with party-state rituals as speeches for the PZPR Congress intercut candlelit toasts. In the opening mining-orchestra segment, dynamic editing syncs shot length to the music’s tempo, while grotesque staging casts engineers as conductors and workers’ movements as instrumental solos.

4.8

Soup

A couple's relationship develops in a combination of photomontage and animation.

7.3

The Fourth Dimension

Shows a couple (Adam and Eve) and various objects, simultaneously, in time, space and movement.

5.5

Locomotive

Based on Lokomotywa, a poem by Julian Tuwim. Made with the use of classical cartoon animation and combined photographs.

6.6

My Window

Zbigniew Rybczynski's experimental short film of a bottle of wine, a parrot in a cage, and a television with news.

5.0

Plamuz

Plamuz animates a cool jazz ensemble's jam session, splitting the screen into pulsing shards of color that dance to different instruments from one moment to the next.

5.8

Square

Zbigniew Rybczynski's series of pictures to the music of Kazimierz Serocki.

6.0

Capriccio No. 24

An experimental video starring a man and a woman who perform a Paganini composition through a series of repeated edited images where they use of objects, noises and small vocalizations in order to emulate music, creating a series of unusual and amusing sequences.

5.8

Oh! I Can't Stop!

A story of a monster which, moving at an enormous speed, devours whatever comes across on its way: people, animals, cars, buildings.

6.8

Take Five

Early experimental film from Zbigniew Rybczynski that broke new ground in the use of pixelation, optical printing, animation and other compositional film devices. Beautiful jazz score and color usage.

8.9

The Orchestra

Zbigniew Rybczinski's video experiments set to classical music pieces.

8.5

Inhale-Exhale

A ‘paradocumental’ by Dziworski & Rybczynski.

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