Movies: Zbigniew Rybczyński

Embarking on a journey across southern Poland to find his long-lost father, twelve-year-old Tomek receives help from a mysterious youth named Gabriel....

A tourist group is shown the latest in Soviet virtual reality technology through the Potemkin....

A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter....

Cheerful Ludwika sets off on an adventurous journey....

An interesting psychological story about one day in the life of a girl. The heroine of the film can not find a common language with her parents, who do not have time to take closer care of the child and understand the difference of an unusually sensi...

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive....

A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, looping further through an absurd dance of social disconnection as each character moves in....

Zbigniew Rybczynski's experimental short film of a bottle of wine, a parrot in a cage, and a television with news....

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....

A 'creative documentary' about an Austrian skier who was known during the 70s. Examined from a biographical / visual standpoint....

Film unfolds in five sequences, each depicting a facet of Barbórka celebrations—from the miners’ orchestra wake-up call and the medal-awarding academy through evening feasting and dancing. Folk traditions mingle with party-state rituals as speeches f...

A couple's relationship develops in a combination of photomontage and animation....

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....

Zbigniew Rybczinski's video experiments set to classical music pieces....

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 ...

A camera tracks through endless rooms while lives unfold....

A film editor's setup. A man plays with a balloon....

Trapped revolves around a number of women from different walks of life whose destinies are tied together; being all under one siege. As the events unfold, their own personal stories reflect on a far bigger siege that depicts the shackles imposed by a...

A film that uses animation as a tool to spastify the various stages of cinema development. It is a play with form and juggling of genres, with Zbigniew Rybczynski collaborating. The theme of this work can be considered the transience and inevitabilit...

Short film by acclaimed polish director Zbigniew Rybczynski. Included in The Workshop of the Film Form...