DER BLAUE REITER
An animated essay on the color blue in 20th century art inspired by, among others, Eadweard Muybridge, Wassily Kandinsky, and Kazimir Malevich.
- GENRE:
- animation
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 6'
- YEAR:
- 2021
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
- Marcin Giżycki
- SCRIPT:
- Marcin Giżycki
- DOP:
- Marcin Giżycki
- EDITOR:
- Marcin Giżycki
- MUSIC:
- Witold Górka
- SOUND:
- Witold Górka
- ANIMATION:
- Marcin Giżycki
Marcin Giżycki »
Art and film historian, critic, filmmaker. Editor in Chief of “Animafilm” magazine (1979-81). Profesor at Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw and Senior Lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, USA (since 1988). Artistic Director of “Animator” International Animated Film Festival in Poznan, Poland (since 2007). He has made a number of documentary, experimental, and animated films, among them “I Am Providence: The Story of H.P. Lovecraft and His City” (1997), “Gus Van Sant” (1998, with Slawomir Grünberg), “The Island of Jan Lenica” (1998), “Travels of Daniel Szczechura” (2005), “106 Olney Street” (2007), “Sicilian Flea” (2008), “Panta Rhei” (2008), “Aquatura” (2010), “AE” (2011), “Kinefaktura” (2012), “F.I.T.” (2012), “FFF1” (2013), “White Curtain” (2014), “A Magic-Lantern Life” (2014), “Watch Your Thoughts” (2015), “Mono Canne” (2015), "Sto[ne]s" (2015), "Monument" (2016), "Stone Story" (2016), "Theatrum Magicum" (2017). His books include: “Disney Was Not the Only One” (2000), “Wenders Go Home!” (2006). He co-curated retrospectives of Polish animated films at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2003) and Centre Pompidou in Paris (2004).
AT FESTIVALS:
- Striped Tale Animation Film Festival, 2021, USA, (competition)
- Experimental Film Festival Barcelona, 2021, Spain, (Special Mention)
- Supernova Digital Animation Festival,2021, USA, (competition)
- Festival Internacional de Animación de Montevideo, 2021, Uruguay, (competition)
- Stop Motion Film Festival, 2021, Spain, (competition)
- Amarcort Film Festival, 2021, Italy, (competition)
- Super Short Film Festival Barcelona, 2021, Spain, (Best Experimental Animation)
- Knight of the Reel Awards, 2022, India, (Animation&Art Winner)
- Fresh Stream Experimental Film Festival, 2022, USA, 2022 (competition)
- Near Nazaterth, 2022, Israel, 2022 (competition)