Zbigniew Rybczyński (; born 27 January 1949) is a Polish filmmaker, director, cinematographer, screenwriter, creator of experimental animated films, and multimedia artist who has won numerous prestigious industry awards both in the United States and internationally including the 1982

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for ''

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''. He has taught

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and

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, and has worked as a researcher of blue and greenscreen compositing technology at Ultimatte Corporation. He is renowned for his innovative audiovisual techniques and for his pioneering experimentation in the field of new image technology. In March 2009, Rybczyński returned to Poland, taking up residence in

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, where he has set up the Center for Audiovisual Technologies (CeTA) at the site of the city's historic Feature Film Studio. The center, which officially opened in January 2013, includes a state-of-the-art studio designed by Rybczyński for the production of multi-layer film images, and an institute for research into images and visual technologies. After Rybczyński discovered and published huge corruption in CeTA, they fired him and subsequently he declared the renunciation of his Polish citizenship.

Early life and career

Rybczyński was born in

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. He grew up in

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, where he attended a secondary-level art school and then worked briefly at the , Studio Miniatur Filmowych (1968-1969). He studied cinematography at the

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(1969-1973); his thesis films were ''Take Five'' and ''Plamuz''. During his studies, he became a founding member of the Film Form Workshop (Warsztat Formy Filmowej), the most important Polish neo

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group. He also honed his film-making skills working as a cinematographer for young directors like

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, Wojciech Wiszniewski, and

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on shorts, documentaries and educational films, and on Grzegorz Królikiewicz's feature-length ''The Dancing Hawk'' (''Tańczący Jastrząb''). His films from the period include: ''The Talk'' (''Rozmowa'', TV) and ''Gropingly'' (''Po Omacku'') by Andrejew, ''Videocassette'' (''Wideokaseta'') by Bajon, and ''Wanda Gościmińska. Włókniarka'' by Wiszniewski. From 1973 to 1980, Rybczyński made his own films at the

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Studio in Łódź. He established the Dr. Stanzl special effects studio in

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for the Austrian public TV station

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, and worked there from 1977 to 1980. During the political unrest in Poland in 1980, he was the head of the founders' committee of the Se-Ma-For studio branch of

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Emigration to the United States

In 1982, during the martial law period, he managed to arrange a job contract that enabled him to leave Poland for Vienna, where he applied for

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. The following year, he and his family emigrated to the US, where they lived in

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and then

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. The first works he made in the US were the short experimental videos "The Day Before" and "The Discreet Charm of the Diplomacy", both made in 1984 on a commission from

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's ''

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''. In 1985, he launched his own studio – ZBIG VISION – in New York, which he subsequently outfitted with the latest video, computer and HDTV technology. It was in this studio that he made his most important American films, including ''Steps'' (1987), ''The Fourth Dimension'' (1988), ''The Orchestra'' (1990), ''Manhattan'' (1991), and ''Kafka'' (1992), which were showered with enthusiastic critical acclaim and numerous awards. In the, US he also made short music-based pieces that added to his popularity and acclaim. Between 1984 and 1989, he made more than 30 music videos for such artists as

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, Cameo,

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, and Rush. One of them – "

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" (1986), made for

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's composition – was the first music video ever made using high-definition technology. In 1994, Rybczyński moved to

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, where he co-founded the Centrum Für Neue Bildgestaltung, an experimental film center in

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, and later worked in

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. He returned to Los Angeles in 2001, where he worked for the Ultimatte Corporation and continued his research in the area where art, science, and digital technology intersect working out new standards for moving images. Among the results of Rybczyński's long-term research and experimentation are his inventions in the field of electronic-image technology, for which he holds several US patents, and which are widely used in the film and TV industries. In March 2009, Rybczyński returned to Poland, taking up residence in

, where he set up the Center for Audiovisual Technologies (CeTa) at the site of the city's historic Feature Film Studio. The center, which officially opened in January 2013, includes a state-of-the-art studio designed by Rybczyński for the production of multi-layer film images, and an institute for research into images and visual technologies. Rybczyński was a professor at the

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(1998-2001), and has also taught at many other art and film schools, including the

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in New York, and Yoshiba University of Art and Design in

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. In 2014, Rybczyński settled on a two acre ranch near Tucson, Arizona. Together with his wife, Dorota Zglobicka who is also a filmmaker, Zbig created GILA MONSTER STUDIOS. Currently, they are in pre-production for their upcoming feature film THE DESIGNER.

Awards

Rybczyński has won numerous prestigious awards at international film festivals including

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(1981),

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(1982),

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(1981), and the Golden Gate Award at the

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(1993). He won the

in 1983 for his film ''Tango'' was the first-ever Oscar awarded to a Polish artist. (The awards ceremony was notable for Rybczyński, as after he left the ceremony to step outside for a smoke, he was barred entry by a security guard even though he was holding an Oscar statuette. A scuffle ensued, and Rybczyński was arrested. His summation of the event was that "success and failure are quite intertwined.") He has also received three

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s, three

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, three Monitor Awards (1984-1987), an

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for "being visionary in the field of music video" (1985–86), a ''Billboard'' Music Video Award (1986), a Silver Lion at the Cannes Advertising Film Festival (1987), an

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(1990), a

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(1990), and the Grand Prize at the International Electronic Cinema Festival, Tokyo-Montreux (1990 and 1992). In 2010, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the development of international cinematic art at the Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (BIAFF) in

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. In 1999, Rybczyński was honored with a star in the Łódź Walk of Fame. In 2008, the Łódź Film School awarded him an honorary doctorate "for outstanding artistic skill and innovation in the cinematic arts and for the creative use of the potentials of art, technology and science". In the same year, Poland's Minister of Culture and National Heritage awarded him the

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for Cultural Achievements, and he also received the prestigious Katarzyna Kobro Award for artistic achievement. Rybczyński's first solo exhibition – "A Treatise on the Visual Image", shown in 2009 at Art Stations in

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, the WRO Art Center in Wrocław, and the Center of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in

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– focused attention on his unique artistic and scientific achievements, presenting his work in the context not only of film, but of contemporary fine arts. Rybczyński was also active in an avant-garde group "Warsztat Formy Filmowej", and had cooperated with

Studios in Łódź, where he authored a series of short films, including: ''Plamuz'' (1973), ''Zupa'' (1974), ''Nowa książka'' (1975), and ''Tango'' (1981). ''Tango'' was his big success, winning the

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Award for

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in 1983.Short Film Winners: 1983 Oscars
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. Rybczyński created dozens of music videos for artists including

, Rush,

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, and

. His clip for

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technology. Rybczyński won several MTV Awards, including the coveted Video Vanguard Award for his radical contributions to the form. Rybczyński is a recognized pioneer in HDTV technology. In 1990, he produced the HDTV program ''The Orchestra'' for the Japanese market. This suite of classical music videos won many awards (including the

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). The program, created in HDTV, was broadcast in standard resolution by

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as part of their ''

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'' series in the US, as HDTV was not widely available to viewers until a decade later. Segments of this program are regularly featured on the

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channel in the U.S. Frustrated with the quality of available

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technology — the process of removing a specific color frequency from film and video that had become essential to his work — Rybczyński began to author his own chromakey software in the 1990s. This led to an R&D position with the Los Angeles Ultimatte Corporation, longtime industry leaders in chromakey technology.

Filmography

Poland period

Later works

1983

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1984

* "Sign of the Times" - music video for

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from ''

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'', 4:25, Elektra/

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* "The Real End" - music video for

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* "All That I Wanted" - music video for

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from their eponymous album, 4:15, Elektra Records * "Diana D" - music video for

, 4 min,

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" - music video for

, 4:30,

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* "The Discreet Charm of the Diplomacy" - experimental short video, 2:56, ''

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1985

* " Lose Your Love" - music video for

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, 3:54, Warner Bros. * " Alive and Kicking" - music video for

, 5:25,

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* "Ultimo Ballo" - music video for Angel and Maimone, 4:50,

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* "Midnight Mover" - music video for

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, 3:10,

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* "Minus Zero" - music video for

, 3:55,

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, 3:55, CBS Records * "P-Machinery" - music video for

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" - music video for

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, 4:15,

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1986

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, Rebo Productions * " The Original Wrapper" - music video for

, 4:40,

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* "I Can't Think About Dancing" - music video for

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, 4 min, Capitol Records * "Sex Machine" - music video for

Fat Boys The Fat Boys were an American hip hop trio from Brooklyn, New York, who emerged in the early 1980s. The group was briefly known originally as the Disco 3, originally composed of Mark " Prince Markie Dee" Morales, Damon "Kool Rock-Ski" Wimbley, ...

, 4 min, Tin Pan Apple/

Sutra Records Kama Sutra Records was started in 1964 by Arthur "Artie" Ripp, Hy Mizrahi and Phil Steinberg as Kama Sutra Productions, a production house. The "Kama Sutra" is an ancient Sanskrit text.Alan Betrock ''Girl groups: the story of a sound'' 1982 p.1 ...

* "All the Things She Said" - music video for

, 4:15, Virgin Records * "Hell in Paradise" - music video for

, 3:30, OnoVideo/Polygram Records * "Stereotomy" - music video for

, 4:10,

Arista Records Arista Records () is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. The label was previously handled by BMG Entertainmen ...

* " OPPORTUNITIES" - music video for

, 3:40,

EMI Records EMI Records (formerly EMI Records Ltd.) is a multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. It originally founded as a British flagship label by the music company of the same name in 1972, and launched in January 1973 as the succ ...

1987

* "

Let's Work "Let's Work" was the second single from the 1981 album '' Controversy'', by Prince. The song originates from a dance called "the Rock" that local kids were doing at the time in Minneapolis. Prince responded quickly with a track called "Let's Rock ...

" - HDTV music video for

, 4:05, CBS Records * "Why Should I Cry?" - HDTV music video for

Nona Hendryx Nona Bernis Hendryx (born October 9, 1944) is an American vocalist, record producer, songwriter, musician, and author. Hendryx is known for her work as a solo artist as well as for being one-third of the trio Labelle, who had a hit with "Lady ...

, 4 min, EMI Records, Rebo Productions * "Keep Your Eye On Me" - HDTV music video for

Herb Alpert Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American trumpeter who led the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s. During the same decade, he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss. Alpert has recorded 28 albums that have landed on the ...

, 5:15, A&M RECORDS, Rebo Productions * ''Steps'' - experimental video/35mm film, 26 min, Zbig Vision, KCTA-TV (

Channel Four Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service i ...

* "

I'm Beggin' You "I'm Beggin' You" is a 1987 single by British progressive rock band Supertramp and one of two entries into the dance charts by Supertramp. "I'm Beggin' You" reached number one on the U.S. ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' Dance Club Songs, Ho ...

" - music video for

, 4 min, A&M Records * "

Time Stand Still ''Time Stand Still'' is the sixth studio album by American rock band the Hooters, released in Europe on September 14, 2007, and released in the US on February 5, 2008. Background The Hooters gathered in October 2006 at keyboard player Rob Hyman ...

" - music video for Rush, 3:30, Polygram Records * " Something Real" - music video for Mr. Mister, 4:10,

BMG Music Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) was a division of a German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008. Although it was established in 1987, the music com ...

* " Dragnet 1987" - music video for

, 3 min,

Chrysalis Records Chrysalis Records () is a British record label that was founded in 1968. The name is both a reference to the pupal stage of a butterfly and a combination of its founders' names, Chris Wright and Terry Ellis. It started as the Ellis-Wright Ag ...

1988

* ''Fluff'' - opening sequence video, 1:47, HDTV,

RAI RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana (; commercially styled as Rai since 2000; known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane) is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. RAI operates many ter ...

* ''The Duel'' - a tribute to G.Melies, 4:08, HDTV, Telegraph * ''Blue Like You'' - HDTV music video for

Étienne Daho Étienne Daho (; ; born 14 January 1956) is a French singer. He has released a number of synth-driven and rock- surf influenced pop hit singles since 1981. Career Daho was born in Oran, French Algeria. He sings in a low, whispery voice somewha ...

, 3:41, Virgin Records * ''The Fourth Dimension'' - experimental 35 mm film, 27 min, Zbig Vision,

Rai 3 Rai 3 (formerly Rete 3) is an Italian free-to-air television channel owned and operated by state-owned public broadcaster RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana. It was launched on 15 December 1979 and its programming is centred towards cultural and ...

Canal+ Canal+ (Canal Plus, , meaning 'Channel Plus'; sometimes abbreviated C+ or Canal) is a French premium television channel launched in 1984. It is 100% owned by the Groupe Canal+, which in turn is owned by Vivendi. The channel broadcasts several ki ...

, and KTCA-TV (PBS)

1989

* ''Capriccio no.24'' - experimental HDTV film, 6:18, TVE's ''The Art of Video'' * ''You Better Dance'' - HDTV music video for The Jets, 3:34, MCA Records * ''Cowbell'' - HDTV music video for Takeshi Itoh, 4 min, CBS Records * ''GMF Groupe'' - promo, 2:03, HDTV, Zbig Vision and Ex Nihilo

1990

* ''The Orchestra'' - HDTV long film, 57:11, Zbig Vision and Ex Nihilo, coproduced by

NHK , also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee. NHK operates two terrestr ...

, Canal+, and PBS ''

''. * ''Video Hits One'' - 17 network IDs for VH1

1991

* ''Manhattan'' - experimental HDTV film, 28 min, Zbig Vision and NHK Enterprises USA, Inc. * ''Washington'' - experimental HDTV film, 28 min, Zbig Vision and NHK Enterprises USA, Inc.

1992

* ''Kafka'' - HDTV long film, 52:16, Télémax, Les Editions Audiovisuelles * ''Curtains'' - opening sequence for ''

Tonight Show ''The Tonight Show'' is an American late-night talk show that has aired on NBC since 1954. The show has been hosted by six comedians: Steve Allen (1954–1957), Jack Paar (1957–1962), Johnny Carson (1962–1992), Jay Leno (1992–2009 and 2010� ...

'', 0:34, HDTV, NBC TV

2004

* ''Une odyssée'' Tunisian movie

2011

* ''The Vision, 2011'', co-director Dorota Zgłobicka, Zbig Vision, Polska

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Early life and career

Emigration to the United States

Awards

Filmography

Poland period

Later works

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

2004

2011

See also

References

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