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"Wyspa R.O" is a highly personal story about freedom, fate and love as well as Lenica's personal creative testament. The allegorical story, full of symbols and the author's quotes, tells of a secret corner of the world which was once inhabited by convicts, where only one lonely guard remains. Lenica was one of the most important creators of Polish poster art and his films have been honored at many international festivals.
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"Wyspa R.O" is a highly personal story about freedom, fate and love as well as Lenica's personal creative testament. The allegorical story, full of symbols and the author's quotes, tells of a secret corner of the world which was once inhabited by convicts, where only one lonely guard remains. Lenica was one of the most important creators of Polish poster art and his films have been honored at many international festivals.
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An extraordinary cut-out-and-move adaptation of all three of Jarry's Ubu plays. The characters are caricatured almost to abstraction- in the opening scene Ma Ubu is even depicted as a bug, Pa Ubu has a massive jaw and a microcephalic brain case.
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An extraordinary cut-out-and-move adaptation of all three of Jarry's Ubu plays. The characters are caricatured almost to abstraction- in the opening scene Ma Ubu is even depicted as a bug, Pa Ubu has a massive jaw and a microcephalic brain case.
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Parody of fictional heroes such as Fantomas and Zorro, told through still photographs.
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Jan Lenica's semi-autobiographical movie about a life of a man under the number "44". He experiences bureaucracy, abusive step-parents, and oppression from the government and society. In the end, he tries to get away to the "lost paradise".
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Jan Lenica's semi-autobiographical movie about a life of a man under the number "44". He experiences bureaucracy, abusive step-parents, and oppression from the government and society. In the end, he tries to get away to the "lost paradise".
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A writer is persecuted by an enormous and abusive letter 'A'.
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A writer is persecuted by an enormous and abusive letter 'A'.
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Based on Eugene Ionesco’s play, this is an animated film waning that by conforming to patterns and living en masse, people will become rhinoceroses.
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Based on Eugene Ionesco’s play, this is an animated film waning that by conforming to patterns and living en masse, people will become rhinoceroses.
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A self-consciously Kafkaesque tale of a winged lonely man literally devoured by totalitarian rule.
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A self-consciously Kafkaesque tale of a winged lonely man literally devoured by totalitarian rule.
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In the modern village of the future, everything is mechanized, but the dreams of the village musician remain the same. He wants to become an artist. Thanks to the fact that an Art Nouveau goddess gave him a helping hand, Janko Muzykant saves his life and escapes from the village on a Pegasus.
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In the modern village of the future, everything is mechanized, but the dreams of the village musician remain the same. He wants to become an artist. Thanks to the fact that an Art Nouveau goddess gave him a helping hand, Janko Muzykant saves his life and escapes from the village on a Pegasus.
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An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica.
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An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica.
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About the work of the naive painter J. Plaskocinski. A playful tale about the requited love of a shy young man.
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Borowczyk and Lenica are at their most expressive in this crude paper miniature.
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A short film advertising the newspaper Sztandar Młodych (The Banner of Youth), noteworthy for its abstract elements painted directly onto film stock. An attempt at showing the complexity of the world in a capsule, the film reflects the new policy of the openness to the West during the Thaw of the late 1950s in Poland.
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An oddball pair try to find their identity and place in an abstract world.
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"Landscape is a nightdream, a landscape of my mind, of my imagination. It evokes memories of the past, reflects the images of reality into the world of fantasy. But the word dream has in this case another meaning. There is also the dream of reason which produces monsters and that is what is learned from Goya’s Caprices and explains in the best way the significance of my film,” —Jan Lenica
