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subtitles: English
Chop, Chop, Chop, Chopin…
Szop, Szop, Szop, Szopę…
Poland
1999
/ 13’
An animated short produced for the International Chopin Year. The soundtrack is Chopin pieces interpreted by Justyna Steczkowska, Michał Urbaniak and Tomasz Stańko. Wilczyński rejects years of obligatory exalted and pompous admiration that has prevented people approaching Chopin’s music in a new way. 
Death to Five
Śmierć na pięć
Poland
2002
/ 4’
The last song recorded before Grzegorz Ciechowski’s death in December 2001, released on a CD entitled The Last Album (Ostatnia płyta). Originally, the video it inspired was to be part of a larger whole, a 30-minute animated film by Wilczyński and Ciechowski. The latter artist’s death stopped the production, leaving only this moving video. 
For My Mother and Me
Mojej Mamie i sobie
Poland
2000
/ 3’
A return to the carefree childhood days in a miniature sketched out with a seemingly sloppy line, but, as a matter of fact, filled with poetry and emotions. Mum always found time to take a look at my drawings, Wilczyński recollects in an interview for the Polish Radio. 
From the Green Hill
Poland, Germany
1999
/ 6’
In this music video for the title track of Tomasz Stańko’s excellent ablum, From the Green Hill (1999), a man sleeping on a park bench returns to his childhood memories. The music video combines the music of the famous jazz trumpet player with the obsessive, constantly morphing world of Mariusz Wilczyński’s imagination. 
In the Stillness of the Night
Wśród nocnej ciszy
Poland
2000
/ 3’
Inspired by Andersen’s The Little Match Girl, this is a moving story about pain, loneliness and a glimmer of hope. A lonely girl on Christmas Eve with a traditional Christmas carol in the background: In the stillness of the night // there is a voice calling // wake up, shepherds // God is being born… 
Kill It And Leave the Town (trailer)
Zabij to i wyjedź z tego miasta (zwiastun)
Poland
2011
/ 2’
In this trailer for an autobiographical animated film (several years in the making), childhood images and memories of deceased parents and his hometown return to life. 
Kizi Mizi
Poland
2007
/ 20’
In this animated melodrama, full of poetry and suspense and Chinese-box narrative, she is a mouse and he is a cat, but there is also a tomcat. Love, betrayal and the pain of loneliness are set to Need Your Love So Bad, the beautifully rhythmic and sad blues by Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac. At the outset, the radio plays the hostile sounds of Tadeusz Nalepa’s song They Will Be Here in a Moment (Oni zaraz przyjdą tu), which set the tone of moral and other anxieties. 
Times Have Passed
Czasy przeszły
Poland
1998
/ 5’
A clock, breakfast, time to go to work, and a factory as if from Charles Chaplin’s Modern Times, devours our protagonist. Once there, he meets Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, Marylin Monroe; also here, he is hanged, exactly like Harold Lloyd on the hand of an enormous clock, and find himself in a cart rushing along the Odessa stairs in a famous sequence of Eisenstein’s The Battleship Potemkin. After being spat out by the machine, the man returns home. The enormous clock appears again – time flies. 
Unfortunately
Niestety
Poland
2004
/ 13’
They used to be a happy old couple that got along well; a regular couple of angels. One night, they experience the same dream, where they are young again. Now, their life takes an unfortunate turn. |
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