Hieronim Neumann

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

Behind the camera

Survival poster
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The 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

Survival poster
NR

The 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

Magritte poster
NR

A film about art. Unusual compositions of images give familiar objects a new look.

Magritte

1995

Magritte poster
NR

A film about art. Unusual compositions of images give familiar objects a new look.

Magritte

1995

Sonata No. 5 in C major poster
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A 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

Sonata No. 5 in C major poster
NR

A 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

Zoopraxiscope poster
4.0

A tribute film in honor of the zoopraxiscope inventor Eadweard Muybridge.

Zoopraxiscope

2005

Zoopraxiscope poster
4.0

A tribute film in honor of the zoopraxiscope inventor Eadweard Muybridge.

Zoopraxiscope

2005

Elevator poster
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Experimental 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

Elevator poster
NR

Experimental 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

Katar poster
NR

A little girl's cold spreads all over town in this short pop-art styled animation.

Katar

1984

The Event poster
5.7

The 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

The Event poster
5.7

The 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

Ptaszor poster
6.0

The 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

Ptaszor poster
6.0

The 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

The Flight of the Bumblebee poster
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A 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

The Flight of the Bumblebee poster
NR

A 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

Galapagos poster
NR

Short ecological satire animation.

Galapagos

1985

Galapagos poster
NR

Short ecological satire animation.

Galapagos

1985

Blok poster
5.0

A 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

Blok poster
5.0

A 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

Marzenie poster
NR

A 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

Marzenie poster
NR

A 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

About Children's Toys poster
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In 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

Figa poster
NR

The colorful balloon undergoes constant metamorphosis. Eventually, it becomes a huge hand arranged in a fig, only to change immediately, however.

Figa

1982

Figa poster
NR

The colorful balloon undergoes constant metamorphosis. Eventually, it becomes a huge hand arranged in a fig, only to change immediately, however.

Figa

1982

Children's Symphony poster
NR

A 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

Children's Symphony poster
NR

A 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

The Dream poster
NR

A series of paintings set to the music of Robert Schumann

The Dream

1993

5/4 poster
2.0

A family prepares to meet friends.

5/4

1979

Wyliczanka poster
NR

A 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

Preludes poster
NR

A 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