
Writing
Jacek Kasprzycki
Known for
Writing
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18 titles
Jacek Kasprzycki (born October 14, 1950 in Poznań). Polish painter, graphic artist, video artist, scriptwriter, director and filmmaker.
Known for
NRThe film is a very personal interpretation of the myth of Icarus, inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder's paintings "The Fall of Icarus" and "Children's Games." The film emphasizes the essence of Icarus's drama by showing his loneliness in a world of people preoccupied only with themselves.
The Fall of Icarus
1997
NRLutek works at Skibka's bakery. One day, Skibka sees Lutek giving Emilka, a homeless girl, a roll. Enraged, he throws Lutek onto the street. Emilka and Lutek meet Mr. Franciszek, a Warsaw cab driver. Mr. Franciszek tells the children about a lake in the basement of the castle on Ordynacka Street, where the Golden Duck floats. He gives anyone who sees her there at midnight a bag of gold ducats. Lutek decides to go to the castle...
The Golden Duck
2002
NRA tenement house in Poznan as a background of social changes and political events in the history of Poland in the 20th century. Shop signs, languages, banners and wall inscriptions change - the tenement is still the same.
My House
1983
NRShort film by Jacek Kasprzycki. Music by Claude Debussy performed by Kazimierz Gierżod.
Clair de lune
1993
NRA film from the "Impressions" series, made using a combination of techniques. It presents the work of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian through documentary photographs from the era in which he lived and worked. The director shows the evolution of the visual arts at the beginning of the 20th century from Fauvism to geometric abstraction using Mondrian's paintings as an example. The artist's philosophical journey into abstraction, which for Mondrian was a confirmation of the superiority of the mind over the senses. The artist's works are woven into the turbulent history of the early 20th century, full of historical events and civilizational changes.
Piet Mondrian
1995
NRClassical animation made on celluloid. Music by Ludvig van Beethoven (Bagatelle in A minor WoO 59).
Für Elise
1992
Behind the camera
NRThe film is a very personal interpretation of the myth of Icarus, inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder's paintings "The Fall of Icarus" and "Children's Games." The film emphasizes the essence of Icarus's drama by showing his loneliness in a world of people preoccupied only with themselves.
The Fall of Icarus
1997
NRThe film is a very personal interpretation of the myth of Icarus, inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder's paintings "The Fall of Icarus" and "Children's Games." The film emphasizes the essence of Icarus's drama by showing his loneliness in a world of people preoccupied only with themselves.
The Fall of Icarus
1997
NRLutek works at Skibka's bakery. One day, Skibka sees Lutek giving Emilka, a homeless girl, a roll. Enraged, he throws Lutek onto the street. Emilka and Lutek meet Mr. Franciszek, a Warsaw cab driver. Mr. Franciszek tells the children about a lake in the basement of the castle on Ordynacka Street, where the Golden Duck floats. He gives anyone who sees her there at midnight a bag of gold ducats. Lutek decides to go to the castle...
The Golden Duck
2002
NRA tenement house in Poznan as a background of social changes and political events in the history of Poland in the 20th century. Shop signs, languages, banners and wall inscriptions change - the tenement is still the same.
My House
1983
NRA tenement house in Poznan as a background of social changes and political events in the history of Poland in the 20th century. Shop signs, languages, banners and wall inscriptions change - the tenement is still the same.
My House
1983
NRShort film by Jacek Kasprzycki. Music by Claude Debussy performed by Kazimierz Gierżod.
Clair de lune
1993
NRShort film by Jacek Kasprzycki. Music by Claude Debussy performed by Kazimierz Gierżod.
Clair de lune
1993
NRA film from the "Impressions" series, made using a combination of techniques. It presents the work of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian through documentary photographs from the era in which he lived and worked. The director shows the evolution of the visual arts at the beginning of the 20th century from Fauvism to geometric abstraction using Mondrian's paintings as an example. The artist's philosophical journey into abstraction, which for Mondrian was a confirmation of the superiority of the mind over the senses. The artist's works are woven into the turbulent history of the early 20th century, full of historical events and civilizational changes.
Piet Mondrian
1995
NRA film from the "Impressions" series, made using a combination of techniques. It presents the work of Dutch painter Piet Mondrian through documentary photographs from the era in which he lived and worked. The director shows the evolution of the visual arts at the beginning of the 20th century from Fauvism to geometric abstraction using Mondrian's paintings as an example. The artist's philosophical journey into abstraction, which for Mondrian was a confirmation of the superiority of the mind over the senses. The artist's works are woven into the turbulent history of the early 20th century, full of historical events and civilizational changes.
Piet Mondrian
1995
NRClassical animation made on celluloid. Music by Ludvig van Beethoven (Bagatelle in A minor WoO 59).
Für Elise
1992
NRThe plot of the film would be based on the story of the 12 signs of the zodiac undergoing a metamorphosis, painted by the outstanding Lithuanian painter and composer of the modernist era, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis.
Andante
2005
NRThe plot of the film would be based on the story of the 12 signs of the zodiac undergoing a metamorphosis, painted by the outstanding Lithuanian painter and composer of the modernist era, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis.
Andante
2005
NRA school study by Jacek Kasprzycki from 1981.
Area Reconnaissance
1981
NRA school study by Jacek Kasprzycki from 1981.
Area Reconnaissance
1981
NRA miniature film set to classical music. Porcelain figurines of a shepherdess, a chimney sweep, a mandarin, and a satyr stand on a mahogany cabinet. When the figurines come to life, it turns out that both the young chimney sweep and the satyr are in love with the shepherdess. When night falls, the chimney sweep and the shepherdess decide to run away. Wandering around a huge room, they come across a Chinese shadow play performed for characters from a deck of cards. In the play, the young lovers are forcibly separated by their families. Terrified by the meaning of the play, they run out of the room. The noise wakes up the satyr, who tries to prevent them from escaping. Satyr throws magical lightning bolts and destroys the mandarin's magic ball. The shepherdess and chimney sweep decide to leave their safe world.
Rondo Russo
1991
NRA road appears on the horizon, a star passes above the road. A journey begins. It turns out to be a journey through life and the 20th century. We can see the character’s point of view.
An Ordinary Journey
1985
NRDitto is an idealist. He does not, unlike Lina, his life companion, attach importance to the things around him. Lina, on the other hand, is captivated by objects and all her attention is focused on collecting them. One day all things revolt against Ditto. The objects complain to Lina that it is Ditto who mistreats them and Lina believes the objects. Ditto decides to turn himself into a thing to show Lina their true nature. However, the things are not malicious towards Lina. After a while, Ditto begins to understand that he has lost the war with things.
War on Things
1998
NREight women of different ages. Love and loneliness. Fear. Therefore, all that clothes us. A film about the fact that if a person chooses "half-life", he rots. The heroines of the film "Collection of dresses" are the subjects of a strange experiment.
Kolekcja sukienek
2016
