Zbigniew Rybczynski

Zbigniew Rybczynski

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Zbigniew Rybczynski

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Kafka
Director
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.
The Orchestra
Director
Zbigniew Rybczinski's video experiments set to classical music pieces.
The Fourth Dimension
Writer
Shows a couple (Adam and Eve) and various objects, simultaneously, in time, space and movement.
The Fourth Dimension
Director
Shows a couple (Adam and Eve) and various objects, simultaneously, in time, space and movement.
Steps
Director
A tourist group is shown the latest in Soviet virtual reality technology through the Potemkin.
Imagine
Director
A camera tracks through endless rooms while lives unfold.
The Day Before
Director
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.
The Discreet Charm of the Diplomacy
Director
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.
Ein Film für Bossak und Leacock
A portrait of the two documentary filmmakers Jerzy Bossak and Richard Leacock.
Angst
Writer
A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.
Angst
Editor
A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.
Angst
Director of Photography
A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.
Tango
Production Design
A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, as they move in loops through an absurd dance of social disconnection.
Tango
Director of Photography
A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, as they move in loops through an absurd dance of social disconnection.
Tango
Screenplay
A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, as they move in loops through an absurd dance of social disconnection.
Tango
Director
A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, as they move in loops through an absurd dance of social disconnection.
Inhale-Exhale
Director
A ‘paradocumental’ by Dziworski & Rybczynski.
Skiing Scenes With Franz Klammer
Writer
A 'creative documentary' about an Austrian skier who was known during the 70s. Examined from a biographical / visual standpoint.
Skiing Scenes With Franz Klammer
Director of Photography
A 'creative documentary' about an Austrian skier who was known during the 70s. Examined from a biographical / visual standpoint.
Media
Director
A film editor's setup. A man plays with a balloon.
Skiing Scenes With Franz Klammer
Director
A 'creative documentary' about an Austrian skier who was known during the 70s. Examined from a biographical / visual standpoint.
My Window
Director
Short film by Zbig Rybczyński.
The Dancing Hawk
Cinematography
"The Dancing Hawk" refers to the son of a peasant who senses he can climb to the job in troubled times by playing his cards right. His slavery to work match his ambitions, and gradually he reaches the social position he desires. But the costs have included a dehumanized soul and a loss of a moral conscience. People have had to pay for his advancement, including those nearest to him. The downfall is equally painful: either imprisonment or the easy wasy out are offered as the alternatives.
Locomotive
Director
Based on Lokomotywa, a poem by Julian Tuwim. Made with the use of classical cartoon animation and combined photographs.
Way to Your Neighbor
Director
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.
Holiday
Director
Short film by Zbig Rybczyński.
New Book
Director
Short film by Zbigniew Rybczyński.
Wanda Gosciminska – A Textile Worker
Director of Photography
The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive allegorical and symbolic imagery in this imaginative take on the documentary form.
Soup
Cinematography
A couple's relationship develops in a combination of photomontage and animation.
Soup
Director
A couple's relationship develops in a combination of photomontage and animation.
Oh! I Can't Stop!
Director
A story of a monster which, moving at an enormous speed, devours whatever comes across on its way: people, animals, cars, buildings.
Plamuz
Director
Early short film by Zbig Rybczyński.
Composition 6800
Director
Short film by acclaimed polish director Zbigniew Rybczynski. Included in The Workshop of the Film Form
Square
Director
Early short film by Zbig Rybczyński.
Take Five
Director
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.