
Directing
Hieronim Neumann
Born
1948-11-14 (77)
Place of birth
Poznan, Wielkopolskie, Poland
Known for
Directing
Credits
32 titles
Director, screenwriter, filmmaker, visual artist, and educator. Full professor. Lecturer at the Academies of Fine Arts in Poznań and Warsaw. He primarily creates original animated films using cutout, composite, and computer techniques. His artistic explorations are inspired by the films of Zbigniew Rybczyński. However, he employs his own, original approaches in his work. Winner of numerous awards and distinctions at international and national festivals. Awarded the Silver Gloria Artis Medal by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2008). Member of the Polish Filmmakers Association.
Known for
NRThe film Survival offers a grotesque critique of homelessness and environmental decay through a unique blend of live-action and diverse animation techniques, including pixilation and 3D. As an auteur project, it integrates these styles seamlessly to create a striking artistic vision. Its scenography embraces upcycling or "trash art," echoing Marcel Duchamp’s legacy of elevating banal objects into profound art. By incorporating street art and graffiti, the film sparks dialogue about art’s role in society. This innovative approach transforms waste into priceless commentary, challenging viewers to reconsider their surroundings and the nature of creativity itself.
Survival
2025
NRA film about art. Unusual compositions of images give familiar objects a new look.
Magritte
1995
NRA film impression set to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, realized using puppet animation techniques, with the visual layer inspired by the paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Sonata No. 5 in C major
1992
4.0A tribute film in honor of the zoopraxiscope inventor Eadweard Muybridge.
Zoopraxiscope
2005
NRExperimental actor-animated film, shot in one long take. The action takes place in the stairwell of a multi-story building, where there is one elevator and the alternative is the only staircase.
Elevator
2017
NRA little girl's cold spreads all over town in this short pop-art styled animation.
Katar
1984
Behind the camera
NRThe film Survival offers a grotesque critique of homelessness and environmental decay through a unique blend of live-action and diverse animation techniques, including pixilation and 3D. As an auteur project, it integrates these styles seamlessly to create a striking artistic vision. Its scenography embraces upcycling or "trash art," echoing Marcel Duchamp’s legacy of elevating banal objects into profound art. By incorporating street art and graffiti, the film sparks dialogue about art’s role in society. This innovative approach transforms waste into priceless commentary, challenging viewers to reconsider their surroundings and the nature of creativity itself.
Survival
2025
NRThe film Survival offers a grotesque critique of homelessness and environmental decay through a unique blend of live-action and diverse animation techniques, including pixilation and 3D. As an auteur project, it integrates these styles seamlessly to create a striking artistic vision. Its scenography embraces upcycling or "trash art," echoing Marcel Duchamp’s legacy of elevating banal objects into profound art. By incorporating street art and graffiti, the film sparks dialogue about art’s role in society. This innovative approach transforms waste into priceless commentary, challenging viewers to reconsider their surroundings and the nature of creativity itself.
Survival
2025
NRA film about art. Unusual compositions of images give familiar objects a new look.
Magritte
1995
NRA film about art. Unusual compositions of images give familiar objects a new look.
Magritte
1995
NRA film impression set to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, realized using puppet animation techniques, with the visual layer inspired by the paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Sonata No. 5 in C major
1992
NRA film impression set to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, realized using puppet animation techniques, with the visual layer inspired by the paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
Sonata No. 5 in C major
1992
4.0A tribute film in honor of the zoopraxiscope inventor Eadweard Muybridge.
Zoopraxiscope
2005
4.0A tribute film in honor of the zoopraxiscope inventor Eadweard Muybridge.
Zoopraxiscope
2005
NRExperimental actor-animated film, shot in one long take. The action takes place in the stairwell of a multi-story building, where there is one elevator and the alternative is the only staircase.
Elevator
2017
NRExperimental actor-animated film, shot in one long take. The action takes place in the stairwell of a multi-story building, where there is one elevator and the alternative is the only staircase.
Elevator
2017
NRA little girl's cold spreads all over town in this short pop-art styled animation.
Katar
1984
5.7The villagers one day are surprised by a strange phenomenon - a high embankment begins to form all over the area. Like in a mole pit, the shifting earth destroys everything around it. After the "cataclysm", new blocks of flats - all made of concrete slab - rise in place of the destroyed farms. Only the residents, transferred to new conditions, do not change their habits.
The Event
1988
5.7The villagers one day are surprised by a strange phenomenon - a high embankment begins to form all over the area. Like in a mole pit, the shifting earth destroys everything around it. After the "cataclysm", new blocks of flats - all made of concrete slab - rise in place of the destroyed farms. Only the residents, transferred to new conditions, do not change their habits.
The Event
1988
6.0The film's artistic premise seeks a plastic equivalent to express the literary content of Gilbet K. Chesterston's prose. It is a graphic film showing the metamorphosis of a tree, the main character of the film. It is predatory and dangerous to the nature around it. It catches and feeds on birds, which, suspecting nothing, live among it.
Ptaszor
1987
6.0The film's artistic premise seeks a plastic equivalent to express the literary content of Gilbet K. Chesterston's prose. It is a graphic film showing the metamorphosis of a tree, the main character of the film. It is predatory and dangerous to the nature around it. It catches and feeds on birds, which, suspecting nothing, live among it.
Ptaszor
1987
NRA film to classical music made using the pixilation technique - animation of a live set with a time-lapse camera. Panorama of the city shown to the rhythm of music imitating the rhythm of the flight of a bumblebee. The camera here plays the role of eyes - it is from the point of view of the flight of the insect that the world is shown. The image of the roofs of houses is coming closer or moving away. A chimney sweep standing on the roof abruptly dodges something flying at him...
The Flight of the Bumblebee
1993
NRA film to classical music made using the pixilation technique - animation of a live set with a time-lapse camera. Panorama of the city shown to the rhythm of music imitating the rhythm of the flight of a bumblebee. The camera here plays the role of eyes - it is from the point of view of the flight of the insect that the world is shown. The image of the roofs of houses is coming closer or moving away. A chimney sweep standing on the roof abruptly dodges something flying at him...
The Flight of the Bumblebee
1993
NRShort ecological satire animation.
Galapagos
1985
NRShort ecological satire animation.
Galapagos
1985
5.0A picture of the life of residents of a modern apartment block. Thanks to the use of the trick technique, the film shows in cross-section apartments-similar boxes, the interiors of which are inhabited by different tenants. Hundreds of events happen in the big, busy moloch house: mundane and unusual, funny and tragic. However, they are all episodes to which no significance is attached. Life goes on...
Blok
1982
5.0A picture of the life of residents of a modern apartment block. Thanks to the use of the trick technique, the film shows in cross-section apartments-similar boxes, the interiors of which are inhabited by different tenants. Hundreds of events happen in the big, busy moloch house: mundane and unusual, funny and tragic. However, they are all episodes to which no significance is attached. Life goes on...
Blok
1982
NRA film miniature set to music by Robert Schumann. Various faces of women taken from paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Titian, and Ingres show women as muses, ladies, heroines, and lovers. The clash of perspectives on women by artists from different eras and the depiction of women in many incarnations constitute a cinematic attempt to define the essence of femininity—an eternal theme explored by painters of all ages. The film culminates in Mona Lisa's mysterious smile, which is the director's commentary on the constant attempts to capture the ephemeral, the indefinable, and the elusive.
Marzenie
1993
NRA film miniature set to music by Robert Schumann. Various faces of women taken from paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Titian, and Ingres show women as muses, ladies, heroines, and lovers. The clash of perspectives on women by artists from different eras and the depiction of women in many incarnations constitute a cinematic attempt to define the essence of femininity—an eternal theme explored by painters of all ages. The film culminates in Mona Lisa's mysterious smile, which is the director's commentary on the constant attempts to capture the ephemeral, the indefinable, and the elusive.
Marzenie
1993
NRIn the kingdom of Lailonia lives the merchant Pigu along with his daughter Memi. Pigu toils to sell pheasant-eating fork protectors to the people of Babylonia, and brings combs for combing camels, which the people of Lailonia immediately snatch up by paying salty prices for them. The merchant Pigu is prosperous. and since a favorite pastime in his country is pecking at globes, Pigu brings his daughter Memi a new globe from each trip.
About Children's Toys
1999
NRThe colorful balloon undergoes constant metamorphosis. Eventually, it becomes a huge hand arranged in a fig, only to change immediately, however.
Figa
1982
NRThe colorful balloon undergoes constant metamorphosis. Eventually, it becomes a huge hand arranged in a fig, only to change immediately, however.
Figa
1982
NRA film impression set to the music of Leopold Mozart, realized using the combined animation technique. A child's toy—a mysterious box with many drawers, double bottoms, and unexpected nooks—reveals a new, surprising image with each touch: old instruments, faded photographs, playing cards, tin soldiers, and clay birds. The image changes like a kaleidoscope—each subsequent rotation of the box's wall surprises the viewer, creating a new form by partially leaving the previous one behind and building a new one.
Children's Symphony
1990
NRA film impression set to the music of Leopold Mozart, realized using the combined animation technique. A child's toy—a mysterious box with many drawers, double bottoms, and unexpected nooks—reveals a new, surprising image with each touch: old instruments, faded photographs, playing cards, tin soldiers, and clay birds. The image changes like a kaleidoscope—each subsequent rotation of the box's wall surprises the viewer, creating a new form by partially leaving the previous one behind and building a new one.
Children's Symphony
1990
NRA series of paintings set to the music of Robert Schumann
The Dream
1993
2.0A family prepares to meet friends.
5/4
1979
NRA popular children's rhyme inspired the artist to create an original visual and sound collage, inspired by the visual achievements of Eadweard Muybridge, a pioneer of cinematography. Here are the individual phases of the horse's movement in a gallop from the photograph of the English master...
Wyliczanka
1976
NRA short film inspired by four short preludes by Frédéric Chopin and the 19th-century paintings of Polish artists Leon Wyczółkowski, Ferdynand Ruszczyc, Jan Stanisławski, and Władysław Podkowiński. The central motif is the image of the Polish countryside, whose beauty inspired Frédéric Chopin's work. Colorful patches, animated by painterly animation, arise, transform, and transform before the viewer's eyes into paintings by Polish artists, to the rhythm of the music.
Preludes
1996
