Jan Lenica Movies

  • 1958
    House

    House

    House

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    An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica.

    House
  • 1959
    Monsieur Tête

    Monsieur Tête

    Monsieur Tête

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    Monsieur Tête, an ordinary bureaucrat, rebels against the world and the ideas of the people around him. Because of his marginal behavior, his...

    Monsieur Tête
  • 1965
    A

    A

    A

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    A writer is persecuted by an enormous and abusive letter 'A'.

    A
  • 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
  • 1963
    Labyrinth

    Labyrinth

    Labyrinth

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    A self-consciously Kafkaesque tale of a winged lonely man literally devoured by totalitarian rule.

    Labyrinth
  • 1964
    Rhinoceros

    Rhinoceros

    Rhinoceros

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    Based on Eugene Ionesco’s play, this is an animated film warning that by conforming to patterns and living en masse, people will become...

    Rhinoceros
  • 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
  • 1957
    Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time

    Once Upon a Time

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    An oddball pair try to find their identity and place in an abstract world.

    Once Upon a Time
  • 1961
    New Janko the Musician

    New Janko the Musician

    New Janko the Musician

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    In the modern village of the future, everything is mechanized, but the dreams of the village musician remain the same. He wants to become an artist....

    New Janko the Musician
  • 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
    Ubu and the Great Gidouille

    Ubu and the Great Gidouille

    Ubu and the Great Gidouille

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    An extraordinary cut-out-and-move adaptation of all three of Jarry's Ubu plays. The characters are caricatured almost to abstraction- in the opening...

    Ubu and the Great Gidouille
  • 1970
    Adam 2

    Adam 2

    Adam 2

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    Jan Lenica's semi-autobiographical movie about a life of a man under the number "44". He experiences bureaucracy, abusive step-parents, and...

    Adam 2
  • 1972
    Fantorro the Last Enforcer

    Fantorro the Last Enforcer

    Fantorro the Last Enforcer

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    Parody of fictional heroes such as Fantomas and Zorro, told through still photographs.

    Fantorro the Last Enforcer
  • 2001
    Wyspa R.O.

    Wyspa R.O.

    Wyspa R.O.

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    "Wyspa R.O" is a highly personal story about freedom, fate and love as well as Lenica's personal creative testament. The allegorical story, full of...

    Wyspa R.O.
  • 1975
    Landscape

    Landscape

    Landscape

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    "Landscape is a nightdream, a landscape of my mind, of my imagination. It evokes memories of the past, reflects the images of reality into the world...

    Landscape
  • 1975
    Moving Pictures: The Art of Jan Lenica

    Moving Pictures: The Art of Jan Lenica

    Moving Pictures: The Art of Jan Lenica

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    This film shows the Polish master animator Jan Lenica working on his film Landscape, and explores the relationship of the artist between the real...

    Moving Pictures: The Art of Jan Lenica