Zbigniew Rybczyński

Biography

Zbigniew Rybczyński (Polish: [ˈzbiɡɲɛf rɨpˈt͡ʂɨj̃skʲi]; born 27 January 1949) is a Polish filmmaker, director, cinematographer, screenwriter, creator of experimental animated films, and multimedia artist who has won numerous prestigious industry awards both in the United States and internationally including the 1983 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Tango. He has taught cinematography and digital cinematography, and has worked as a researcher of blue and greenscreen compositing technology at Ultimatte Corporation. He is renowned for his innovative audiovisual techniques and for his pioneering experimentation in the field of new image technology. In March 2009, Rybczyński returned to Poland. He took up residence in Wrocław, where he set up the Center for Audiovisual Technologies (CeTA) at the site of the city's historic Feature Film Studio. The center, which officially opened in January 2013, includes a state-of-the-art studio designed by Rybczyński for the production of multi-layer film images, and an institute for research into images and visual technologies. After Rybczyński discovered and publicized corruption in CeTA, he was fired and subsequently declared the r…

Directed

1. Tango (1985) — Director
2. Soup (1975) — Director
3. Steps (1987) — Director
4. The Fourth Dimension (1988) — Director
5. New Book (1975) — Director
6. Imagine (1987) — Director
7. The Orchestra (1990) — Director
8. Media (1980) — Director
9. Oh! I Can't Stop! (1976) — Director
10. My Window (1979) — Director
11. Holiday (1975) — Director
12. Way to Your Neighbor (1976) — Director
13. Square (1972) — Director
14. Plamuz (1973) — Director
15. Take Five (1972) — Director
16. The Discreet Charm of the Diplomacy (1984) — Director
17. Locomotive (1976) — Director
18. Inhale-Exhale (1981) — Director
19. Capriccio No. 24 (1989) — Director
20. The Day Before (1984) — Director
21. Skiing Scenes With Franz Klammer (1980) — Director
22. Kafka (1992) — Director
23. Piątek - Sobota (1977) — Director
24. Manhattan (1990) — Director
25. Washington (1991) — Director
26. Composition 6800 (1972) — Director
27. The World's Greatest Animation (1994) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Kill It and Leave This Town (2020) — Woland and Berlioz's Severed Head / Megaphone (voices)
2. Ein Film für Bossak und Leacock (1984)
3. Zbig [Zbigniew Rybczyński] (2001) — Self
4. Processing the Signal — Himself