We invite you to the Municipal Gallery bwa for a meeting with Marcin Giżycki. It is a part of the artistic residency organized by the Bydgoszcz Czarny Karzeł Foundation. In addition to a conversation with the director, we will have the opportunity to watch a selection of short experimental films, including improvised ones, made with the author’s own water painting technique on special Japanese paper. We will screen such films as: “Sycylijska Pchła” 2008, “Panta Rei” 2008, “Aquatura” 2010, “Kinefaktura” 2012, “FH (Filmowe Haiku)” 2015, “STO[NE]S” 2015, “Monument” 2016, “4Jellyfish” 2018. Admission free, all welcome.
Marcin Giżycki – art and film historian, critic, director, photographer. Professor at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. Lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence (USA). Art director of the “Animator” International Animated Film Festival in Poznań. Author of books on the history of art and film, such as: “Koniec I co dalej? Szkice o postmodernizmie, sztuce współczesnej i końcu wieku” (2001), “Słownik kierunków, ruchów i kluczowych pojęć sztuki II połowy XX wieku” (2002), “Wenders do domu! Europejskie filmy o Ameryce i ich recepcja w Stanach Zjednoczonych” (2006) and “Kino-Media-Sztuka-Twórcy. Szkice” (2016). He made such movies as: “Providence to ja! Opowieść o H. P. Lovecrafcie i jego mieście” (1997), “Wyspa Jana Lenicy” (1998); “Podróże Daniela Szczechury” (2005), “Sycylijska Pchła” (2008), “Alfred Schreyer z Drohobycza” (2010), “Aquatura” (2010), “Kinefaktura” (2012), “FFF1” (2013), “Magiczne życie” (2014), “Stone Story” (2016), “Monument” (2016), “Theatrum Magicum” (2017), “Rzeźbiarz z Kamerą” (2018).
“Wieczór – realizacja filmu animowanego” (Evening – Making of an Animated Movie) is an art and production residence aiming at bringing to life a painting. Professor, PhD, Marcin Giżycki will cooperate with a Bydgoszcz art group “Czarny Karzeł” and a group of volunteers and actors. The result of the cooperation will be the production of an animated film in Bydgoszcz. “The Evening” will be a film inspired by an oil painting under the same title by a pioneer of Polish animated film, Zenon Wasilewski (1903–1966). Wasilewski considered himself a surrealist, he painted surrealistic paintings, but he never made a film that would fully reflect his artistic interests. Ideological, technical and script preparations for this project have been going on for several years.
13.10.2018, 4pm
20 Gdańska St.
