Piotr Kamler

Piotr Kamler

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Piotr Kamler

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Continu-discontinu 2010
Director
An abstract animated short blending floating particles, light, and classical music. The director's first use of computer animation mirrors his first animated short Continu-discontinu (1959).
Telemann
Director
2006 short by Piotr Kamler
One Ephemeral Mission
Director
An explicit examination of interaction.
Chronopolis
Production Design
Chronopolis tells the story of a gargantuan city lurking in the sky colonized by powerful immortals who have become jaded with eternal life. Most of their time is spent monotonously constructing bizarre and unusual objects while waiting for the ultimate gift to arrive in their hands.
Chronopolis
Director of Photography
Chronopolis tells the story of a gargantuan city lurking in the sky colonized by powerful immortals who have become jaded with eternal life. Most of their time is spent monotonously constructing bizarre and unusual objects while waiting for the ultimate gift to arrive in their hands.
Chronopolis
Producer
Chronopolis tells the story of a gargantuan city lurking in the sky colonized by powerful immortals who have become jaded with eternal life. Most of their time is spent monotonously constructing bizarre and unusual objects while waiting for the ultimate gift to arrive in their hands.
Chronopolis
Writer
Chronopolis tells the story of a gargantuan city lurking in the sky colonized by powerful immortals who have become jaded with eternal life. Most of their time is spent monotonously constructing bizarre and unusual objects while waiting for the ultimate gift to arrive in their hands.
Chronopolis
Director
Chronopolis tells the story of a gargantuan city lurking in the sky colonized by powerful immortals who have become jaded with eternal life. Most of their time is spent monotonously constructing bizarre and unusual objects while waiting for the ultimate gift to arrive in their hands.
The Step
Animation
A short film in which pieces of paper fly off of an animated cube.
The Step
Director
A short film in which pieces of paper fly off of an animated cube.
Cœur de secours
Director
Animated short film by Piotr Kamler
Delicious Catastrophe
Director
An intruder interrupts the monotony of life by causing disaster.
Labyrinth
Director
The landscape surveyed here might be the estranged interior of your typical East-European-émigré-animator's skull; with its deranged narrative values, artfully disturbed graphic style, and aggressive "musique concrete" sonorities, Kamler's are among the most astounding works you'll ever see... In company of Walerian Borowczyk, Peter Foldes & Arcady, Kamler is successor to a prestigious tradition of East European émigré animators (think: Alexieff, Bartosch, Starewycz). Like their precursors, they are also among the most distinguished artists in cinema, celebrated for graphic style and narrative experiment. This film boasts a striking electronic soundtrack, from one of the finest 'musique concrete' composers (no surprise - this film was produced by the famous INA-GRM, the audio-visual research institute founded by electronic music pioneer Pierre Schaeffer. -- Jim Knox, originally written for the OtherFilm Festival
Enfance
Director
A poem by Verlaine sung by the Freres Jacques group, freely illustrated by a play of coloured abstract forms.
The Hole
Director
The outrageous and sometimes harrowing adventures of a non-being in search of his ego.
Meurtre
Director
A free transposition of a Kafka novel: the peace of an imaginary insect is disturbed by three little balls.
The Elephant Spider
Cinematography
The short takes place around the Big Bang… probably before. A poor creature called the Elephant Spider spends its life walking in one direction (see why the dimensional aspect is important) and the short recounts what happens when it runs out of a place to walk.
The Elephant Spider
Screenplay
The short takes place around the Big Bang… probably before. A poor creature called the Elephant Spider spends its life walking in one direction (see why the dimensional aspect is important) and the short recounts what happens when it runs out of a place to walk.
The Elephant Spider
Director
The short takes place around the Big Bang… probably before. A poor creature called the Elephant Spider spends its life walking in one direction (see why the dimensional aspect is important) and the short recounts what happens when it runs out of a place to walk.
La Planète Verte
Director
An imaginary planet, an abstract universe in continual motion, where minute organisms. half flea half amoeba, the ‘actuphages', live and evolve peacefully.
Lignes et points
Director
Infinite star space, where luminous forms evolve; dots swarm in webs of insubstantial lines.
Étude 65
Director
Etude 65 is a study based on a precedent Kamler's short using the second part Continu-discontinu with a new music composed by the great Beatriz Ferreyra.
Tournoi
Director
Based on abstract images by Kamler, Andre Voisin and Francois Bayle imagined the story of a messenger charged to bring to our planet the key to a forgotten wisdom.
Winter
Director
Impressions on the topic of plastics set to Vivaldi's Winter: blizzard, dancing moons, beats ice, sparkling silver crystals, petrified wood frozen.
Galaxie
Director
The life and power of a distant, red galaxy, which is invaded by an external force, bringing in its wake shadows and destruction.
Composition
Director
A 1961 short directed by Piotr Kamler.
Structures
Director
A short film by Piotr Kamler from 1961.
Danse
Director
A dialogue of forms, colours and movements follow a rhythm which is both plastic and musical.
Reflets
Director
Moonlight reflected in water: the forms and lines are continually rearranged by the currents.
Conte
Director
A short film from 1960 by Piotr Kamler.
Continu-discontinu
Director
Piotr Kamler meets Luc Ferrari & Iannis Xenakis. A play of opposites: space, colour, forms, movements
Casse-noisette
Director
Boléro
Director