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Zbigniew Rybczyński, Oscar winning graduate of the Lodz Film School (for the film "Tango") gave a 4 hour long lecture at school premises on Dec. 12, 2013.
Zbigniew Rybczyński’s lecture, which started
at 10 am and lasted four hours, was delivered at the television studio to Lodz
Film School students, mostly cinematographers and animators, school’s
professors, and also Lodz Fine Art Academy students.
– It’s been forty years since I graduated from the Lodz Film School– said Rybczyński. – I am impressed by the studio we are in now - forty years ago there was a football pitch in this place. Let me start with images, cause without images I don’t quite feel I’m alive - saying this Rybczynski showed his drawings, sketches, and charts which he drew working on his films.
– Copernicus has been my hero: we should be able to look at things we know differently. That what we see is constantly moving. I put my efforts in showing it live. I didn’t write scripts – I improvised. I myself would build devices to create image which consisted of many movements. I built my first tower for the film "Kafka".
Rybczynski’s technological experiments aimed, amongst others, at constructing a device capable of reflecting human eye perception: - For years great minds have pondered on how to photograph a picture, which human eye normally does not perceive i.e. a picture in micro or macro scale , disregarding the true perception of the eye. – explained his observations Rybczyński. – As a result we have hundreds of various lenses, which in one way or another distort our real perception.
- Somebody who is not able to write computer programs is like an illiterate person for contemporary times. – said Rybczyński explaining that computer programming is a simple act with unlimited possibilities. – For programming we need a few dozens of signs and similar amount of expressions. Using them we are able to create everything that our mind can generate. The ability to generate optical pictures is one of the greatest human discoveries, although I personally think that one day they will be substituted by computer technology.
- I encourage people to thinking. Many of our mistakes originate in the fact that we are unable to get out of the axiom trap. It is necessary to deny them and search for other truths, ask questions. – this is how Zbigniew Rybczyński summed up his achievements in the field of technological pursuit, which, as he pointed out many times, frequently had been rejected and misunderstood.
The retrospective exhibition "Zbigniew Rybczyński" can be seen at Atlas Sztuki in Łodz (Piotrkowska 114/116 from 13 Dec., 2013 till 2 Feb., 2014). It is an artistic achievements presentation of one of the greatest Lodz Film School graduates, its Doctor Honoris Causa, and the Oscar winner for the film “Tango” (1983) made in the Lodz Short Film Studio Se-Ma-For. Rybczyński has been the author of experimental films, director, director of photography, screenwriter and art director, multimedia artist, new audio-visual technologies pioneer. Lodz Film School direction of photography graduate, co-founder of avant-garde group Film Form Workshop. The US Patent Office approved of numerous Rybczynski’s patents for inventions to do with electronic image. He got the nickname Big Zbig for enthusiastically received music videos for the first time produced in HDTV, among others for John Lennon ("Imagine"), Mick Jagger, Simple Minds, Yoko Ono and Lou Reed. He is the author of the films "Steps", "Fourth Dimension", "Orchestra", "Manhattan" and "Kafka". He is also the winner of Prix Italia, Emmy, The Golden Gate Award at IFF in San Francisco, American Video Awards and the Billboard Music Video Award.
The exhibition is an event organized as part of the 65th Lodz Film School anniversary celebrations.
– It’s been forty years since I graduated from the Lodz Film School– said Rybczyński. – I am impressed by the studio we are in now - forty years ago there was a football pitch in this place. Let me start with images, cause without images I don’t quite feel I’m alive - saying this Rybczynski showed his drawings, sketches, and charts which he drew working on his films.
– Copernicus has been my hero: we should be able to look at things we know differently. That what we see is constantly moving. I put my efforts in showing it live. I didn’t write scripts – I improvised. I myself would build devices to create image which consisted of many movements. I built my first tower for the film "Kafka".
Rybczynski’s technological experiments aimed, amongst others, at constructing a device capable of reflecting human eye perception: - For years great minds have pondered on how to photograph a picture, which human eye normally does not perceive i.e. a picture in micro or macro scale , disregarding the true perception of the eye. – explained his observations Rybczyński. – As a result we have hundreds of various lenses, which in one way or another distort our real perception.
- Somebody who is not able to write computer programs is like an illiterate person for contemporary times. – said Rybczyński explaining that computer programming is a simple act with unlimited possibilities. – For programming we need a few dozens of signs and similar amount of expressions. Using them we are able to create everything that our mind can generate. The ability to generate optical pictures is one of the greatest human discoveries, although I personally think that one day they will be substituted by computer technology.
- I encourage people to thinking. Many of our mistakes originate in the fact that we are unable to get out of the axiom trap. It is necessary to deny them and search for other truths, ask questions. – this is how Zbigniew Rybczyński summed up his achievements in the field of technological pursuit, which, as he pointed out many times, frequently had been rejected and misunderstood.
The retrospective exhibition "Zbigniew Rybczyński" can be seen at Atlas Sztuki in Łodz (Piotrkowska 114/116 from 13 Dec., 2013 till 2 Feb., 2014). It is an artistic achievements presentation of one of the greatest Lodz Film School graduates, its Doctor Honoris Causa, and the Oscar winner for the film “Tango” (1983) made in the Lodz Short Film Studio Se-Ma-For. Rybczyński has been the author of experimental films, director, director of photography, screenwriter and art director, multimedia artist, new audio-visual technologies pioneer. Lodz Film School direction of photography graduate, co-founder of avant-garde group Film Form Workshop. The US Patent Office approved of numerous Rybczynski’s patents for inventions to do with electronic image. He got the nickname Big Zbig for enthusiastically received music videos for the first time produced in HDTV, among others for John Lennon ("Imagine"), Mick Jagger, Simple Minds, Yoko Ono and Lou Reed. He is the author of the films "Steps", "Fourth Dimension", "Orchestra", "Manhattan" and "Kafka". He is also the winner of Prix Italia, Emmy, The Golden Gate Award at IFF in San Francisco, American Video Awards and the Billboard Music Video Award.
The exhibition is an event organized as part of the 65th Lodz Film School anniversary celebrations.