ZBIG RYBCZYNSKI::RETROSPECTIVES

ZBIG RYBCZYNSKI - RETROSPECTIVES, PRESENTATIONS, JURY MEMBER

2008
MostraInvideo Milan - Cinema without Barriers - retrospective and lectures.
November 11-17, Associazione Italiana Amici Cinema d'Essai - AIACE, Milano, Italy.

Avvistamenti (Sightings) - 5th edition of The International Video-Art Exhibition - retrospective and meeting with the public.
November 18-22, Cineclub Canudo, Bari, Italy.

Canariasmediafest - 13-th International Festival of Arts and Digital Cultures. - screening of The New Book, My Window, Tango and Kafka.
Oct 28 - Nov 1, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

JAZZ SCORE - screening of Plamuz - a film by Zbig (1973), with music by Zbigniew Namyslowski.
August 7, MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

ANIMATOR - International Animated Films Festival - retrospective and meeting with the public.
July 1-12, Estrada Poznanska, Poznan, Poland.

2008 Annecy Festival of Animation - Member of the Short Films Jury, together with John Canemaker, Stephan-Flint Mueller, Helene Tanguary and Richard Williams.
June 9–14, Annecy, France.

Filmove Dialogy - screening of Tango, Steps, The Orchestra, The Fourth Dimension, Kafka.
June 3, LaFabrika Praque, Czech Republic.

'Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design'--'The secret life of objets' - screening of The Fourth Dimension.
April 8-12, Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.

Polish New Wave: A History Of The Phenomenon That Never Existed - Presentation of Polish feature and documentary films from the 1960's, and up until the present day - including Zbig's films and cinematographic works - meeting with the public.
January 24-27, at Anthology Film Archives, New York.

Presentation of selected Zbig's films at:
III International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville - Seville, Spain.
Faces of Mechanization: The CMU International Film Festival 2008 - Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
FIDMarseille - International Documentary Film Festival - Marseille, France.

2007
The Cinefamily at The Silent Movie Theatre - "Experimental Night: Zbigniew Rybczynski" - retrospective and meeting with the public.
December 4, Los Angeles.

Broadband Association at CAD-CENTER Tokyo - Lecture and presentation "Digital film making a la Zbig."
June 4, Tokyo, Japan.

Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music - Workshop with Prof. Masaki Fujihata.
June 5, Yokohama, Japan.

Presentation of selected Zbig's films at:
Impossibly Familiar - Art Gotham Gallery, New York.
Idyll - Der Kuenstlerverein Walkmuehle, Germany.
Fantoche 07 - 6. Internatinal Festival Fuer Animationsfilm, Baden, Switzerland.
Cinema D'Animation. Espaces En Jeu - Musee de Design et D'Arts Aplliques Contemporains, Lausanne, Switzerland.
5th Asiana International Short Film Festival - Seoul, Korea.
Stuk Arts Centre - Leuven, Belgium.
7th edition of the Sant Cugat Film Festival - Barcelona, Spain.
Festival Dialogu 4 Kultur - Retrospective - Lodz, Poland.
Museum der Kulturen - Basel, Switzerland.
Media Festival - Lille, France.
Barcelona International Short Film Festival - Barcelona, Spain.

2006
Inter BEE 2006 - International Broadcast Equipment Exhibition - International Symposium "The evolution of the HDTV production from Television to Digital-cinema and 3D movies" - Zbig presents his concepts of "Spherical Zoom Lens, Principles of Spherical Perspective and 3D Stereoscopic Projection."
November 15, Makuhari Messe (Nippon Convention Center), Tokyo, Japan.

ARS CAMERALIS - Gornoslaski Festiwal Sztuki Kameralnej
Retrospective of films and videos, seminars and long discussions :o)
Nov, 27-30, Centrum Sztuki Filmowej and ASP (Academy of Fine Arts), Katowice, Poland.

Presentation of selected Zbig's films at:
17th edition of Zagreb's World Festival of Animated Films - Croatia.
ANNECY 2006 - France.
Sant Cugat Film Festival - Barcelona, Spain.
Mar del Plata International Independent Film Festival 3º edition - Argentina.
Armenian International Dance Film Festival KINO-PAR- Armenia.
Tabor Films Festival - Croatia.
CINESSONNE, Festival of European Film - Essonne, France.
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona - Spain.
Media 10-10 Festival du court métrage - Namur, Belgique

The MONSTRA - Lisbon Animated Film Show - Retrospective and Master Class "The Possibilities of Digital Set Design".
May 16-21, The São Jorge Cinema, Lisbon, Portugal.

2005
Cinémathèque québécoise - Retrospective and Master Class.
November 23–26, Montréal (Québec), Canada

THE 5th TEL AVIV ANIMATION FESTIVAL - Retrospective of selected works and seminars.
August 27-30, - The Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Tel Aviv, Israel Link: TAC

SYNCH 2nd EDITION - ELECTRONIC MUSIC & DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL
- Retrospective of selected films and videos.
July 1-3, Technological & Cultural Park of Lavrio, Athens, Greece
Link: SYNCH

TAMPERE 35th INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
- Retrospective of films and videos.
- Seminars and discussions held at Werstas Central Museum of Labour:
- Possibilities of Digital Set Design - Director Zbig Rybczynski talks about the digital design methods used in his films.
- Animation Rebels - Barry Purves (GB), Zbig Rybczynski (USA), Priit Pärn (Estonia).
- Music Video Workshop - Directors Zbig Rybczynski and Tommi Pietiläinen - in cooperation with Finnish Music Information Centre (FIMIC).
March 9-12, Tampere, Finland
Link: TISFF

2004
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF SHORT FILMS
- Master Class on computer animation and high definition filmmaking with Zbig.
September 4, Camelot Theatre, Palm Springs, CA

"ZBIG RYBCZYNSKI VISIONary" - MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
- Presentation of selected films and videos.
July 21- Aug 8, Melbourne, Australia

The Museum of Modern Art - New York in association with the Polish Cultural Institute
present A SHORT HISTORY OF POLISH ANIMATION - USA/CANADA TOUR:
     February 6-7, Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Leo S. Bing Theater, LACMA, Los Angeles
     Special appearance by Zbig Rybczynski (Feb,7)
     Link: LACMA
     February 22-29, College of Santa Fe Santa Fe, NM
     March 7-14, The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque - Cleveland, OH
     March 20-21, Rhode Island School of Design - RISD Auditorium, Providece, RI
     March 26-April 3, Cinematheque Ontario - Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON

2003
DISSOLVENZE - VI EDIZIONE ARTE&CINEMA - "Zbig Rybczynski: Tutto"
Bruno Di Marino, Roberto Nanni, enrico ghezzi, Zbig Rybczynski
- Retrospective and workshop: Mago "Zbig" e la scienza dell'immagine.
November 5-8, Universita degli Studi di Udine/Gradisca d'Isonzo, Italy

BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME - Presentazione del DVD - Zbig Rybczynski Film&Video
edizioni RaroVideo/Interferenze/eccentriche visioni
Intervengono: Zbig Rybczynski, Stefano Curti, Bruno Di Mariono, enrico ghezzi.
- Presentation of videos produced in the USA between 1984-1988 and meeting with the public.
November 6, Rome, Italy

Link: RaroVideo

ISTITUTO POLACCO DI ROMA - Zbig Rybczynski Film&Video - Il periodo polacco
- Presentation of films produced in Poland between 1970-1980 and meeting with the public.
November 5, Rome, Italy

Link: Istituto Polacco

THE MUSEUM of MODERN ART in association with the Polish Cultural Institute in New York
A SHORT HISTORY OF POLISH AVANT-GARDE AND EXPERIMENTAL FILM
- Presentation of Tango, music videos, and other experiments in animation and optical printing.
October 25øNovember 2, MoMA Film at The Gramercy Theatre, New York
November 8-16, UC Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive - PFA Theater, Berkeley, California

Link: MoMA

Link: Polish Cultural Institute

La MILANESIANA - LITERATURE MUSIC CINEMA - Europe Towards East "ORCHESTRA"
An evening with Umberto Eco, Zbigniew Rybczynski, Ryuichi Sakamoto and enrico ghezzi.
June 30, Palazzo Isimbardi - Milan, Italy

39th MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE DEL NUOVO CINEMA - Retrospective and panel discussion.
June 21-29, Pesaro, Italy.

Golden Oldies of Music Video - screening of Midnight Mover(1985) by Zbig, music by Accept. Produced by Alan Kleinberg.
May 1, MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

2002
70 YEARS of ANIMATION - OSCARS IN ANIMATION: THE MOVIES
- Screening of "Tango". ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS and SCIENCES, August 16, Los Angeles
HELENA MODEJESKA - ART and CULTURE CLUB - Retrospective and seminar.
May 17, Los Angeles

2001
SEE YOU HEAR - Seminar: "Music/Tempo - Video Frame/Tempo".
Juni 22, ACADEMY OF MEDIA ARTS-Cologne in AKADEMIE DER KUNSTE-Berlin, Germany
DANISH FILM INSTITUTE and THE GOETHE INSTITUTE of COPENHAGEN
- Retrospective and seminar. March 26-28, Copenhagen, Danmark
INSTYTUT PROBLEMOW WSPOLCZESNEJ CYWILIZACJI
- Seminar "About Vision". March 13, Warsaw, Poland
KINO.LAB - CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART - INSTYTUT SZTUKI PAN
- Retrospective and seminar. March 10, Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw, Poland
POLNISCHES INSTITUT - Retrospective and seminar: "Andere Dimensionen".
Feb, 15-16, Kino Black Box - Duselldorf, Germany

2000
10-th "MESSAGE TO MAN" INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
- Russian Cinema Premiere of Zbig. Jury Chairman of the Debut Int't Competition.
June 15-22, St. Petersburg, Russia
MEDIEN FORUM MUNICH
- Videos and Seminar: "immer der Nase nach".
June 13-14, Rathausgalerie. Munich, Germany
SCIENCES OF THE INTERFACE
- An International Symposium In Honor of Otto Roessler's 60-th Birthday.
May 18-21, ZKM - Karlsruhe, Germany
KUNSTVEREIN LUDWIGSBURG
- "Im Kabinett: Videos von Zbig Rybczynski". January-March, Villa Franck, Ludwigsburg, Germany

1999
THE LODZ FILM SCHOOL OF POLAND: 50 YEARS
- Zbig's student films shown at the Museum of Modern Art's
fiftieth-anniversary tribute to the Lodz Film School.
Dec 98-Jan 99, Museum of Modern Art, New York
PERSPECTIVE ON PERSPECTIVE - Scientific Symposium in the Mucsarnok.
Lecture: "The Principles of Linear Perspective: Beliefs Based on Ignorance and Blindness".
Retrospective in Orokmozgo Filmmuzeum. July 4, Budapest, Hungary
36th INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL in KRAKOW
- Retrospective and Jury Chairman. May 28-June 1, Krakow, Poland
FESTIVAL OF CREATORS - BLOW UP
- "Ryszard Horowitz - Zbig Rybczynski - Michael Nyman - Lodz Kaliska."
May 25-30, Lodz, Poland
FIRST LISBON INTERNATIONAL VIDEO FESTIVAL VIDEOLISBOA '99
- Jury Chairman, Jan, 20-24, Lisbon, Portugal

1998
ZKM/ZENTRUM FUER KUNST UND MEDIENTECHNOLOGY
- Retrospective: "Zbig Rybczynski - Die 70er: Film und Avangarde" and
"Zbig Rybczynski - Die 80er: Video und Music". Oct, 24-25, Kalsruhe, Germany
ANIMANIA - 17th INTERNATIONAL FILM RETROSPECTIVE
- Selected works. Oct, 27-31, Pesaro, Italy

1997
CAMERAIMAGE '97
- Screening and Lecture. Dec, Torun, Poland
SONY WONDER TECHNOLOGY LAB HD THEATER
- Retrospective "The HD Surrealist Returns". Oct, 16, New York
FLUSSER - MEDIA - FILM - International Media Symposium - FAMU Film School,
Goethe Institute Prag, AVU Academy of Fine Arts, National Gallery Prag.
- Screenings and Lectures. Nov, 24-25, Prag, Czech Republic
Up and Coming- Film Festival
- Retrospective and Seminar. Nov, 4-6, MedienHaus fur Kunst & Kultur - Hannover, Germany
LEIPZIGER BUCHMESSE
- Retrospective. March 21, Leipzig Book Fair, Germany

1996
BBS-TOLDI STUDIO MOZI Center for Culture & Communication
- Retrospective and Seminar. Sept, 27-29, Budapest, Hungary
GOLDEN AWARD OF MONTREUX '96
- Jury Member for the International Advertising Festival.
September, Montreux, Switzerland

1995
CINEMA AND ARCHITECTURE SYMPOSIUM
- Screening and Paper: "Looking to the Future: Imagining the Truth"
University of Cambridge Department of Architecture and
National Film and Television School. April 6-8, Cambridge, England
CINEMA JOVE
- Retrospective. Valencia, Spain
DIGITALE 95
- HDTV works and discussion.
Oct, 18-21, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany
8. VIDEOFEST
- Retrospective. Feb, 10, Mediopolis - Berlin, Germany
MEDIEN FORUM BERLIN-BRANDENBURG
6. Internationaler Kongress fur Medienwirtschaft und -politik.
- Panel "Digitale Filmbearbeitung". Aug, 29, ICC - Berlin, Germany
FILM MUSIC TAGE '95
- HDTV works and Symposium. Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der
Bundesrepublik Deutchland. Nov, 8-12, Bonn, Germany

1994
IDFA INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILMFESTIVAL AMSTERDAM
- "Focus Poland" - Selected Films. Dec, 7-15, Amsterdam, Holland
5. EUROPAEISCHE SOMMERAKADEMIE - FILM und MEDIEN
- Workshop: "Audiovisuelle Bildsprache". July 4-5, Akademie Der Kunste - Berlin, Germany
RETROSPEKTIVE: 40 JAHRE KURZFILMTAGE OBERHAUSEN
- Selected films shown in the retrospective of 40 years of
the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. April 21-27, Oberhausen, Germany
FILM- & MEDIENBOERSE '94
- HDTV works and discussion. March 28, Haus der Wirtschaf - Berlin, Germany

1993
THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER
- "Zbig Visions: The Surreal and Sensual World of Zbig Rybczynski"
Nov, 26-30, The Walter Reade Theater, New York
VIDEOTECA MUNICIPAL
- Retrospective "Mostra Monografica De Zbig Rybczynski". Nov, 13-16, Lisbon, Portugal
19 JOURNEES INTERNATIONALES DU CINEMA d'ANIMATION ANNECY '93
- Retrospective and Exhibition "Zbig OSCAR Rybczynski". Annecy, France
EFFECTS
- Screening and Seminar: "Working with HDTV".
April 27-29, Hamburg, Germany
VIPER '93 FESTIVAL DES EXPERIMENTALFILMS
- Retrospective - Oct, 19-23, Luzern, Switzerland
ETH - SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE of TECHNOLOGY ZURICH
- Retrospective and seminar: "In search of non-photographic realism in electronic film"
Oct-Nov, Zurich, Switzerland
NOWE MEDIUM - Retrospective and Seminars - May, 12-16, Warsaw and Lodz, Poland
WRO '93 4th INTERNATIONAL SOUND BASIS VISUAL ART FESTIVAL
- Retrospective. May 5-8, Wroclaw, Poland
VIDEOARCO 93 - Retrospective and Seminars - Feb, 12-17, Madrid, Spain

1992
IMAGINA
- Screening and conference: "Special Zbig!" Feb, 2, Monte Carlo, Monaco
HI-VISION FAIR '92 - Screeening HDTV works. ???? Kiuschu??? Island, Japan
PERSPECTIVEN DER MEDIENKUNST
- HDTV works and Symposium. Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der
Bundesrepublik Deutchland. September 18-19, Bonn, Germany
NOWE MEDIUM - Retrospective. Nov, 17-19, Gdynia, Poland
ART FUTURA '92 - Retrospective - April 1-5, Barcelona, Spain
MUSEU DA IMAGEM E DO SOM
- Retrospective. June 16-25, Cinevideo - Sao Paulo, Brasil
5-th BKSTS SPECIAL EFFECTS SEMINAR
- Selected films and videos.
Oct, 23-25, British Film Institut-Pinewood Studios, London
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY FILM AND TELEVISION
- Retrospective - October 23, Bradford, England

1991
MIMAD '91 - Selected HDTV works - December 3, Madrid, Spain
FILM - JESTESMY - Selected works - Sep-Nov, 1991, Warsaw, Poland

1990
THE MUSEUM OF BROADCASTING
- HDTV - Three Visions - November 13-24, New York
"GREAT PERFORMANCES"
- High-Definition Television (HDTV) screening of "The Orchestra" at THE JAPAN SOCIETY.
April 23, New York
BIENA BIENAL DE LA IMAGEN EN MOVIMIENTO '90
- Screening of "The Orchestra".
Dec, 12-23, Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
ART FUTURA '90
- Selected videos. Jan, 10-14, Barcelona, Spain

1989
PROGETTO LEONARDO - Selected videos. Milan, Italy

1988
CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU
- Retrospective. Feb 1-3, Paris, France
THE FIFTH MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL
- Special Event. Feb, 5-14, Miami, Florida
YOUNG & RUBICAM ITALY
- "Omaggio a Zbig". Oct, 14, Milano, Italy
COPENHAGEN FILM+VIDEO WORKSHOP FESTIVAL 88
- Selected films and videos. Copenhagen, Danmark

1987
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
- "The future of Video" - a special evening. Feb, 19, New York
UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM - Animation and Music Video - Pacif Film Archives
July 21, Berkeley, California
THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
- Retrospective "The Arts For Television". Sept, Boston, Massachusetts
EUROVISIONI
- "Omaggio a Zbig Rybczynski" at Villa Medici Oct, 6-11, Rome, Italy
THE 11-th HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
- Retrospective. April 10-25, Hong Kong

1986
AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
- Presentation of HDTV works. December, Los Angeles, California

1985
CORNELL CINEMA
- "Visual Music" screening and discussion. Sept, 29, Ithaca, New York

1984
30th ANNUAL ROBERT FLAHERTY FILM SEMINAR
- Retrospective at CORNELL UNIVERSITY. Aug 10-16, Ithaca, New York
BIOGRAPH THEATRE
- Film retrospective. May 18-23, Georgetown - Washington, DC
NINTH SEATTLE FILM FESTIVAL
- Film retrospective at The Egypthian Theatre. May 14, Seattle, Washington
THE NUART THEATRE
- Film retrospective. Feb 9, Los Angeles, California
FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION
- Selected works. Feb 4-5, La Jolla Museum Of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California

1983
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
- Screening at the School Of The Arts - Film Division. December, New York
CENTURY-Cafe
- Film retrospective (to benefit The Actors Collective). Dec 4, New York
TENTH TELLURIDE FILM FESIVAL
- Film retrospective: "Calculated Vision". Sep 2-5, Telluride, Colorado
PRESENCES POLONAISES
- Participation in the presentation of Polish Experimental Art at
the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
14th INTERNATIONAL ANIMATED FILM FESTIVAL ANNECY '83
- Retrospective - Hommage. June 7-8, Annecy, France

1981
KORT FILM FESTIVALEN '81
- Film retrospective. Oct, 23, Roeros, Norway
8 POLISH FILM FESTIVAL GDANSK
- Member of the Jury. Sept, Gdansk, Poland

1979
STADTKINO - DUSSELDORFER FILMFORUM
- Film retrospective. April 19, Dusseldorf, Germany

1972
ATELIER '72 - EDINBURGH FESTIVAL
- Participation in the presentation of Polish Art at
The Richard Demarco Gallery Ltd. August, Edinburgh, England