Zbigniew Rybczyński

A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.

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.

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

From Friday to Saturday is not far away, if only one turns ... signpost.

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

A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.

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.

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

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

From Friday to Saturday is not far away, if only one turns ... signpost.

From Friday to Saturday is not far away, if only one turns ... signpost.

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

A camera tracks through endless rooms while lives unfold.

A riff on Bunuel's classic, Lorne Michaels commissioned this Zbigniew Rybczynski work for NBC's The New Show, as a satiric look at the January 27th, 1984 White House reception for the Soviet Ambassador.

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

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

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

Short film by acclaimed polish director Zbigniew Rybczynski. Included in The Workshop of the Film Form

A visual reflection on Washington, D.C.

A visual reflection on Washington, D.C.

A cinematic impression presenting the director's vision of this New York borough. We see people jogging, exercising, and dancing in the streets. Passers-by, police officers, animals on busy thoroughfares, among towering skyscrapers—they all appear and disappear on screen.

A cinematic impression presenting the director's vision of this New York borough. We see people jogging, exercising, and dancing in the streets. Passers-by, police officers, animals on busy thoroughfares, among towering skyscrapers—they all appear and disappear on screen.

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

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.

A ‘paradocumental’ by Dziworski & Rybczynski.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Another commission by Lorne Michaels for NBC's The New Show, this short film follows the attempts of a thirsty rotating cosmonaut to imbibe his wine.

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.

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

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.

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.