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Animation in Poland. Witold Giersz Miroslaw Kijowicz Jan Lenica Walerian Borowczyk. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
Animation in Poland
Witold GierszMiroslaw KijowiczJan LenicaWalerian Borowczyk
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
Polish filmmakers have drawn on their nation's rich tradition ofgraphic art, avant-garde theater, and puppetry to create someof the most technically sophisticated, darkly satiric, and fantasticalanimation in the world.
1950s and early 1960s, a time when Polish artists wouldcloak their indictments of Stalinism, power politics, and repressionin allegorical storytelling and ironical wit.
Even today, venerable Polish animation studios and independentanimation filmmakers continue to produce works noted for theiratmospheric tension, subtle graphic shadings, and meticulous,at times even grotesque, attention to detail.
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
• 1927 born in Poraj, Poland
graduated from the Lodz Film School
• 1950 started to work like animator in Slask Cooperative
Witold Giersz b.1827
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
Witold Giersz b.1827
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
Witold Giersz b.1827
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
Witold Giersz b.1827
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
the organisator of Studio Miniatur Filmowych in Warsaw
• 1960 Maly Western made by oil paintings, was a stimulus to the development of autor 's animation in Poland.
• 1963 Red and Black continued oil technique
• 1967 Horse
Witold Giersz b.1827
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
1975 Fire in which the textures of brushstrokes become an integral part of nature's processes
worked as an artist, director and producer of animated films. He has awarded almost 50 prizes and distinctions. He has produced over 35 films, many of them received prizes and distinctions.
Witold Giersz b.1827
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
• 1929 born in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Studied art at Warsaw
Miroslaw Kijowicz (1929- 1999)
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
1960s began work as cartoon film director
“short aphoristic films addressed to mental activity”
• 1960s Harlequin
The town
Portraits
Cabaret
Miroslaw Kijowicz (1929- 1999)
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
1963 Fenix
• 1964 Vodja
• 1965 The banner
• 1971 Cages and science fiction
• 1978 The Water Babies
• 1999 died in Wyszków, Poland.
Miroslaw Kijowicz (1929- 1999)
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
1928 born in Poznan, Poland
1945 started to contribute drawings
1947 graduated from a secondary school of music in Poznań Collegeof Music
1950 art editor of the satirical journal "Szpilki“
1952 graduated from Warsaw Polytechnic Deaprtment of Architecture
1954 Assistant at the Chair of Posterof the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts
1955 award for lithography for an immediatedistinctive style in poster Art
Jan Lenica (1928-2001)
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
Jan Lenica (1928-2001)
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
Jan Lenica (1928-2001)
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
1957 ONCE UPON A TIME with Walerian Borowczyk - grand prize atVenice and Mannhei
1957 Education Days, and Banner of Youthhand-painted graphic interludes in the manner of Len Lye
1957 Striptease
1958 Requited Sentiments Borowczyk and Lenica dispensed withoriginal artwork altogether, relying solely upon montage and cameramovement to transform the work of a Sunday-painter into a rathergrotesque love story.
1958 Dom (house)
1963 – 1986 lived and worked in Paris
Jan Lenica (1928-2001)
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
1974 moved to the USA and lectured on poster art at HarvardUniversity in Cambrige
1979- 1985 the head of the Chair of Animated Film at KasselUniversity
1979 the head of animated films department at the University of Kasse
1987 lived and worked in Berlin
1986- 1994 he was Professor of Posters and Graphic Arts at the BerlinHochschule der Kunste.
"I have always liked to move at the periphery of Art, at the crossing ofgenres. ... I have enjoyed ... combining elements which wereseemingly distant, if not quite foreign, blurring the borders betweenadjacent areas, transplanting noble qualities to "lower" genres, in otherwords - quiet diversion”
Jan Lenica (1928-2001)
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
Shortly after Dom, Lenica's collaboration with Borowczyk ended bitterly
and their frictions were never resolved. They retained and developed their preoccupations with the grotesqueand the absurd that was so evident in their Polish films.
1959 Monsieur Tete narrated by the absurdist playwright EugèneIonesco
1960 moved back to Poland and made New Janko the Musician basedon Henryk Sienkiewicz animated pastiche
1962 Labyrinth - Kafka-esque tale of a winged lonely man literallydevoured by totalitarian rule.
1963 moved to Germany and made The Rhinoceros
Jan Lenica (1928-2001)
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
1964 A
1966-1968 Adam 2
1976 Lenica returned to animation and made King Ubu based onAlfred Jarry's story
1979 Ubu et la Grande Gidouille -the only one of Lenica's films thatwas to rely upon dialogue.
1980s a major retrospective of poster and animation work at theGeorges Pompidou Centre in Paris
1990s worked in UK with Tadeusz Konwicki on A Minor Apocalypse –his final film
Jan Lenica (1928-2001)
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
1923 born in Kwilcz, Polandstudied fine arts before becoming a lithographer, for which he won thePolish prize and then an animator, often sharing directorial credit withcompatriot Jan Lenica.
subtly erotic, witty, and subversive animated shorts, their style utterly
unlike anything seen up through that time.
Late '50s moved to France and all of his major works were produced
there
1968 Goto, Island of Love
1972 Blanche
Walerian Borowczyk (1923-2006)
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
1974 Immoral Tales
1975 The Story of Sin the only work made in Poland
1975 La Bête
Borowczyk's cinema is one that resists pigeonholing due to his use of
many different cinematic styles
juxtaposition is an integral part of his art
music, photography and editing combine, in his best work, to produce
a cinematic poetry much more earthy, human and relevant than
anything in Tarkovsky's or Godard's filmography.
Walerian Borowczyk (1923-2006)
AD 502 - Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC
His films generally concern the cruel power of obsessional love and
the need for sensual pleasure. They depict how a repressive
atmosphere can exploit those in it (Blanche) or lead to the
abandonment of control (La Bête). They celebrate joy and show
outright disgust at misery but are still endowed with an ironic sense of
humour.
Walerian Borowczyk (1923-2006)