Zbigniew Rybczyński

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Zbigniew Rybczyński (born January 27, 1949 in Łódź ) is a Polish experimental filmmaker and cameraman .

Rybczyński attended the State High School for Plastic Arts ( Zespół Państwowych Szkół Plastycznych im. Wojciecha Gersona - ZPSP) in Warsaw and then studied camera at the State University of Film, Television and Theater Łódź (PWSFTviT). His first two short films, Kwadrat and Take Five (both 1972), were made during his studies . After graduating, he worked at the Łódź film studio Se-ma-for ( Studio Małych Form Filmowych - SMFF), where from 1973 to 1981 he shot most of his experimental animated films . His debut film at Se-Ma-For, Plamuz (1973, with saxophonist Zbigniew Namysłowski ) is one of the first Polish music video .

Rybczyński's star on the Walk of Fame in Łódź

His innovative short films made in Łódź such as Zupa (1974), Nowa Książka , Lokomotywa and Święto (1975), Oj! Never mogę się zatrzymać! (1976), Piątek – Sobota (1977), Media (1980) and Wdech – wydech (1981) were also performed and celebrated at festivals abroad, but it wasn't until the eight-minute Tango collage from 1980 that he finally achieved his breakthrough. Tango won numerous prizes at international festivals, such as the Cristal d'Annecy and Rybczyńskis (after 1979) the second main prize at the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen in 1981 , and finally the Oscar for best animated short film in 1983 .

Due to martial law proclaimed in Poland in 1981, he left his homeland and first went to Austria , where he received political asylum in 1982. Here he shot the shocker film Angst (1983) together with director Gerald Kargl , in which he directed the camera and acted as a film editor and co-author.

After the Academy Awards in 1983, he moved to the USA with his family . In the following time he made over 30 music videos for artists such as Grandmaster Flash ( Sign of the Times , 1984), The Art of Noise ( Close to the Edit , 1984, and Dragnet , 1987), the Simple Minds ( Alive and Kicking , 1985 , and All the Things She Said , 1986), Propaganda ( P-Machinery , 1985), Lady Pank ( Minus Zero , 1985), Lou Reed ( The Original Wrapper , 1986), The Alan Parsons Project ( Stereotomy , 1986) and the Pet Shop Boys ( Opportunities , 1986). It was during this time that his first HDTV experiments, the music videos for John Lennon's Imagine and Cameos Candy (both 1986) and Mick Jagger's Let's Work (1987) , fall . For his music videos he was awarded three MTV Video Music Awards and in 1986 the MTV Video Vanguard Award for his role as a “visionary in the field of music videos”.

For his groundbreaking work in HDTV, he received, among other awards, an Emmy in 1990 (for the one-hour classic program The Orchestra ). His film Kafka (1992) won the 1993 Special Jury Prize at the San Francisco International Festival .

From 1994 to 1997 Rybczyński worked in the CBF Studios in Berlin on the development of new compositing and motion control technologies. From 1998 he held a professorship for experimental film at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne . Since 2001 he has lived in the USA again and works at Ultimatte in Los Angeles .

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Individual evidence

  1. Angst feature film, entry in the IMDB