When I was asked to select ten favourite animations – I was speechless. Where will I find ten of them when, from those which I have seen, four, maybe five moved me? I began frantically searching… And suddenly I thought that it was pointless, that I should show what really interests me and what inspires me. Mariusz Wilczyński Sonny Boy Williamson II – Nine Below Zero
UK
1963
/ 7’
The real name of Sonny Boy Williamson II (1899–1965) was Aleck ‘Rice’ Miller. His adopted name included II, because another harmonica virtuoso, John Lee ‘Sonny Boy’ Williamson already used the Sonny Boy stage name. Undoubtedly one of the most important figures in the history of blues, a musician with amazing technique and imagination, with a harmonica sound that is recognisable after just a few notes, he appears here in the blues classic Nine Below Zero. Night on Earth (episode)
USA, UK, France, Japan, Germany
1991
/ 23’
This fragment is one of five episodes that take place simultaneously in different time zones during a night taxi ride. It begins in Los Angeles, as day gives way to night, and an influential agent, Victoria (Gena Rowlands) offers to make her cab driver Corky (Winona Ryder) a superstar. The other episodes take place in New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki. Jarmusch propagates tolerance and respect for fellow human beings in this ‘simultaneous’ film. Howlin’ Wolf – I’ll Be Back Someday & Love Me Darlin’
USA
1964
/ 9’
Chester Arthur Burnett (1910–1976), better known as Howlin’ Wolf, a legendary vocalist, gitar player, harmonica player, and composer, was one of the Chicago blues legends with a huge influence on rock music. His music inspired, among others, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Cream, and Jimi Hendrix. Here, Howlin’ Wolf plays two spectacular gigs I’ll Be Back Someday and Love Me Darlin’. Baby Snakes (episode)
USA
1979
/ 30’
This film is a recording of a famous Frank Zappa concert at NY’s Palladium Theatre on Halloween in 1977. Musicians playing include Adrian Belew (guitar), Roy Estrada (vocals, bass guitar), Patrick O’Hearn (bass guitar), Tommy Mars (keyboard), Peter Wolf (keyboard), Ed Mann (drums), Terry Bozzio (percussion) and, of course, as master of ceremonies, Frank Zappa (vocals, guitar). The documentary parts interweave with animated sequences (Bruce Bickford’s masterpiece) thus creating a mesmerising collage of art and music. Coffee and Cigarettes III (episode Somewhere in California)
USA
1993
/ 12’
While sitting at a café, you can talk about the dentist, Presley, and about the advantages of (non)smoking. This was the case in three short films about coffee and cigarettes by Jim Jarmusch. To the shorts made in 1986, 1989 and 1993, the American director added eight new episodes giving rise to the feature film, Coffee and Cigarettes. The characters smoke cigarettes, drink coffee and talk, talk, talk. All the stories are intriguing, though the dialogue between Iggy Pop and Tom Waits is pure delight. Miles Davis – Time After Time
Germany
1988
/ 9’
Summer 1988: Miles Davis is softly rounding the notes of Cyndi Lauper’s Time After Time on his horn at the Munich Philharmonic during the Münchner Klaviersommer festival, accompanied by Kenny Garret (saxophone and flute), Bobby Irving and Adam Holzman (keyboard), Joe ‘Foley’ McCreary (guitar), Benjamin Rietveld (bass guitar), Marylin Mazur (percussion instruments), and Ricky Wellman (drums). The recording with this memorable concert is available as part of a 3-CD album, Munich Concert, from IMC Music. Tango
Poland
1980
/ 9’
A succinct story about the memory of some room, metaphor of the interrelation between human fate and the passage of time. Enclosed in the space demarcated by four walls there are various simultaneous events taking place; they entice the past involving different tenants or people who appeared there more or less by chance. First, there is just one person, then the other one, then the next and the next… Someone is putting on some clothes, someone else is having soup; there is a couple making love on the bed; a man is installing a light bulb and while suffering from electric shock, he falls onto the floor; there is also a thief tiptoeing quietly… The room becomes more and more crowded but the people gathered there manage not to bump into one another; time planes overlap, but this is not the case with the people – each of them has their own space. A formally sophisticated experiment and a philosophical metaphor at the same time. The first Oscar for the Polish cinematography. Wild Strawberries (episode)
Smultronstället
Sweden
1957
/ 5’
One of the greatest films of all time: Professor Borg’s physical journey becomes an emotional and spiritual voyage to the past reviving his lost purpose in life. Memories and dreams intermingle with the present; the past and the present coexist on screen. Bergman’s masterpiece opens with the professor’s strange dream, where he is walking through the streets of a desolate city. He passes a clock without hands, notices a man who proves to be a dead doll, and a hearse drives by. its casket falling out to reveal the professor’s corpse. Tadeusz Nalepa – Prayer
Tadeusz Nalepa – Modlitwa
Poland
1991
/ 8’
One of the best songs created by the Tadeusz Nalepa–Bogdan Loebl duo shown here live in concert version from Sopot, 1991. The title of this song in English means The Prayer. Tadeusz Nalepa sings: Hear my song, o Lord, / I cry to you today, / You are everywhere, You are everything, / but do not be a stone to me. / I cry to you with my song, / since you can give anything, / so I plead to you, give me a chance one more time, / give me the chance for the last time. / It is enough if you raise your hand, / one thought of yours will suffice, / and I will start my life from start / so I beg for one divine gesture. La Dolce Vita (episode)
La dolce vita
Italy, France
1960
/ 5’
The exploits of a young and talented journalist in the world of Roman high life serve as bitter commentary on the Italian upper class – their carefree lives filled with gossip, scandals, promiscuity, and hypocrisy. The title of Fellini's film, La dolce vita, has come to mean an empty, idle life, which may be finely packaged but wholly empty. It also the film that coined the expression paparazzi to describe photojournalists that ruthlessly feed on the privacy of celebrities. Prepared by: Jerzy Armata Information about directorMariusz Wilczyński Screenwriter, animated film and TV shorts designer and director. A painter, cartoonist, set designer, actor, and teacher. Wilczyński takes on various artistic tasks successfully combining several artistic disciplines (musical-art-cinematic performances). He was born on 29 April 1960 in Łódź. A graduate from the Faculty of Painting and Graphic Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (1986), where he studied at the painting atelier of Prof. Stanisław Fijałkowski and wood engraving atelier of Andrzej Marian Bartczak. Wilczyński's work has been exhibited in Poland (16 individual exhibitions) as well as in Amsterdam, Bruges, Budapest, Chicago, London, Madrid, Oslo, Sofia, Wakayama and Yokohama. He produces original animated films and so-called applied animation productions. Selected filmography 1998 Czasy przeszły / Times Have Passed (short) 1999 Szop, szop, szop, Szopę… / Chop, Chop, Chop, Chopin… (short) 2000 Mojej Mamie i sobie / For My Mother and Me (short) 2000 Wśród nocnej ciszy / In the Stillness of the Night (short) 2004 Niestety / Unfortunately (short) 2007 Kizi Mizi (short)
videoclips 1994 O sole mio (co-dir.) 1996 Sprawiedliwość / Justice 1997–1998 Kołysanki / Lullabys 1998 Allegro ma non troppo 1999 From the Green Hill 1999 Nienawidzę / I Hate 2002 Śmierć na pięć / Death to Five
TV 1995–1999 Księgoklipy (etiudy animowane, TVP 1, program Goniec Kulturalny) / Bookclips (animated etudes, TVP 1, a programme Cultural Messenger) 2003–2005 Wilkołaki (etiudy animowane, TVP 2, program Lubię czytać) / Werewolves (animated etudes, TVP 2, a programme I Like Reading) 2005–2010 TVP Kultura (oprawa plastyczna kanału TVP Kultura) / TVP Culture (artistic design of the channel TVP Culture) Prepared by: Jerzy Armata |
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