Walerian Borowczyk Movies

  • 1972
    Gunpoint

    Gunpoint

    Gunpoint

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    Semi-documentary exposé of scandalous hunting practices in the Sologne, a wooded area south of Orléans where he shared a house at the...

    Gunpoint
  • 1967
    Theatre of Mr. and Mrs. Kabal

    Theatre of Mr. and Mrs. Kabal

    Theatre of Mr. and Mrs. Kabal

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    "Theatre of Mr. and Mrs. Kabal" is Walerian Borowczyk’s first feature-length film and his last animated film. It consists of a sequence of...

    Theatre of Mr. and Mrs. Kabal
  • 1957
    Banner of Youth

    Banner of Youth

    Banner of Youth

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    A short film advertising the newspaper Sztandar Młodych (The Banner of Youth), noteworthy for its abstract elements painted directly onto film...

    Banner of Youth
  • 2015
    Return to Méliès: Borowczyk and Early Cinema

    Return to Méliès: Borowczyk and Early Cinema

    Return to Méliès: Borowczyk and Early Cinema

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    This six-minute short from director Daniel Bird takes a look at the silent cinema pioneers that influenced the work of Walterian Borowczyk. We take a...

    Return to Méliès: Borowczyk and Early Cinema
  • 1964
    Le musée

    Le musée

    Le musée

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    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...

    Le musée
  • 1975
    Letter from Paris

    Letter from Paris

    Letter from Paris

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    Paris is a monstrously inhuman cityscape, in which cars, buses, crowds, and unceasing noise combine to smother any decent and delicate human...

    Letter from Paris
  • 1972
    Une collection particulière (noir et blanc)

    Une collection particulière (noir et blanc)

    Une collection particulière (noir et blanc)

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    Une collection particulière (noir et blanc)
  • 1969
    The Phonograph

    The Phonograph

    The Phonograph

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    An old phonograph assembles itself, plays songs on wax drums before self destructing. In many ways The Phonograph is a companion piece to...

    The Phonograph
  • 1957
    Street Art

    Street Art

    Street Art

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    A short news reel documentary about poster art.

    Street Art
  • 1958
    School

    School

    School

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

    School
  • 1968
    Gavotte

    Gavotte

    Gavotte

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    Two bored dwarves fight over a cushion.

    Gavotte
  • 1974
    La Bête

    La Bête

    La Bête

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    A monster, the Beast of Gévaudan, is spreading terror in France, in the Massif Central.

    La Bête
  • 1974
    Thérèse Philosophe

    Thérèse Philosophe

    Thérèse Philosophe

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

    Thérèse Philosophe
  • 1967
    The Concert

    The Concert

    The Concert

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    A short film by Walerian Borowczyk. Ostensibly a film of a concert given by the round, unassuming Monsieur Kabal and his spiky, terrifying wife, it's...

    The Concert
  • 1957
    Strip-Tease

    Strip-Tease

    Strip-Tease

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    Borowczyk and Lenica are at their most expressive in this crude paper miniature.

    Strip-Tease
  • 1979
    Happy Toy

    Happy Toy

    Happy Toy

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    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...

    Happy Toy
  • 1963
    Holy Smoke!

    Holy Smoke!

    Holy Smoke!

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    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...

    Holy Smoke!
  • 1966
    Le Petit Poucet

    Le Petit Poucet

    Le Petit Poucet

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

    Le Petit Poucet
  • 1958
    Love Requited

    Love Requited

    Love Requited

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

    Love Requited
  • 1980
    Hyper Auto Erotic Art: Hayashi

    Hyper Auto Erotic Art: Hayashi

    Hyper Auto Erotic Art: Hayashi

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

    Hyper Auto Erotic Art: Hayashi