I was intrigued by both Zbigniew’s work as well as his complex and vowel sparse name. Often times in his experimental animated films he would perform the roles of director, cameraman, screenwriter, and set designer all at once. Zbigniew’s career started right after his graduation from his art high school in Warsaw where he snagged a job at the oldest production studio in Poland, Studio Miniatar Filmoych. After creating his Oscar winning production, Tango he opened up his own studio and started using a computer-integrated system called High Definition. Zbigniew Rybczynski is often claimed as the contemporary George Melies. An animator we learned about earlier who was known for his trick films and famous works such as A Trip to the Moon.
A common theme of his work is all based around his idea that human perception of the world is limited and it is better for people to find new points of view in order to understand more. This is evident in his piece Tango due to the bending and altering of the viewers ideas of time and space.
Below I will link another one of his works below:
ANIM223 - HISTORY OF ANIMATION - FALL 2019 