Movies: Walerian Borowczyk

A light-hearted animated romp through the alphabet, with each letter identified by both a word and a visual interpretation of that word, by the crudely-drawn Joachim....

Animated short. Abstract forms in a setting evocative of a concentration camp created by the universe. Based on a series of paintings by the Polish artists and filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk, Les Jeux des Anges takes the viewer into a nightmarish and s...

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk...

The inhabitants of our region demand the beatification of Thérèse Fl., the pious young girl shamefully raped by a vagabond....

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 ...

A portrait of Serb erotic surrealist painter Ljubomir "Ljuba" Popović....

An animated film made by Walerian Borowczyk for W.D. & H.O. Wills. A very pompous cigar smoker reminisces about the good old days when the lower classes knew their place and stayed away from cigars meant only for the privileged. However, after he and...

Three youths are abandoned on a road by their crazy mother. Suddenly appears a strange woman carrying a placard saying she's a guide. The guide brings the youths with her on an journey in the woods. A journey they will never forget....

An animated advert made by Walerian Borowczyk for a French pasta company....

A man seeks for satisfaction from a prostitute working in a revue. He pays for the whole night and discovers a saddening truth about her....

Semi-documentary exposé of scandalous hunting practices in the Sologne, a wooded area south of Orléans where he shared a house at the time. The film, part tribute to Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game (1939) and its celebrated hunting scene, is nota...

Animated photographs (made with Jan Lenica) with elements of animated cartoon. A display of military drill....

About the work of the naive painter J. Plaskocinski. A playful tale about the requited love of a shy young man....

A short news reel documentary about poster art....

Countess Erzsébet Báthory, accompanied by her page, visits the villages and hamlets of her county of Nyitra in Hungary....

This short film by Walerian Borowczyk was made in 1979 but is so little known that when it was rediscovered in 2014 it had not been included in any of his filmographies. Of all Borowczyk's films, this is the one that most clearly shows his love of ea...

Camera panning over the work of Yoshifumi Hayashi, accompanied by classical music....

Lucrezia Borgia, accompanied by her husband Giovanni Sforza visits his father, Pope Alexander VI, and his brother, Cardinal Cesare Borgia. The Dominican Hyeronimo Savonarola denounces the dissolute life of the ecclesiastical environment....

Camera operator Noël Véry provides a commentary on footage shot during the making of The Beast....

An advert made by Walerian Borowczyk for a French pasta company. After everybody has left the museum, the paintings can finally come alive and help themselves to some pasta for dinner....