Jan Lenica Movies

A writer is persecuted by an enormous and abusive letter 'A'.

An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica.

A self-consciously Kafkaesque tale of a winged lonely man literally devoured by totalitarian rule.

In the modern village of the future, everything is mechanized, but the dreams of the village musician remain the same. He wants to become an artist....

An oddball pair try to find their identity and place in an abstract world.

A short film advertising the newspaper Sztandar Młodych (The Banner of Youth), noteworthy for its abstract elements painted directly onto film...

Based on Eugene Ionesco’s play, this is an animated film warning that by conforming to patterns and living en masse, people will become...

Monsieur Tête, an ordinary bureaucrat, rebels against the world and the ideas of the people around him. Because of his marginal behavior, his...

Borowczyk and Lenica are at their most expressive in this crude paper miniature.

An extraordinary cut-out-and-move adaptation of all three of Jarry's Ubu plays. The characters are caricatured almost to abstraction- in the opening...

Jan Lenica's semi-autobiographical movie about a life of a man under the number "44". He experiences bureaucracy, abusive step-parents, and...

About the work of the naive painter J. Plaskocinski. A playful tale about the requited love of a shy young man.

Parody of fictional heroes such as Fantomas and Zorro, told through still photographs.

"Landscape is a nightdream, a landscape of my mind, of my imagination. It evokes memories of the past, reflects the images of reality into the world...

"Wyspa R.O" is a highly personal story about freedom, fate and love as well as Lenica's personal creative testament. The allegorical story, full of...

This film shows the Polish master animator Jan Lenica working on his film Landscape, and explores the relationship of the artist between the real...