Jan Lenica

This film shows the Polish master animator Jan Lenica working on his film Landscape, and explores the relationship of the artist between the real world and his fantasy visions.

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Independent filmmakers are given a chance to show and discuss their work on a commercial (ABC-TV) affiliate station.

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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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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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Images of women in Art Nouveau and other art movements at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

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Based on Eugene Ionesco’s play, this is an animated film warning 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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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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Monsieur Tête, an ordinary bureaucrat, rebels against the world and the ideas of the people around him. Because of his marginal behavior, his head is broken, like everyone else.

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