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 1983

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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. He took up residence in

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, 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. After Rybczyński discovered and publicized corruption in CeTA, he was fired and subsequently 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 Andrzej Barański, Piotr Andrejew, 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

Se-Ma-For Se-ma-for was a Polish film and animation studio. Founded in Łódź, Poland in 1947, the company has created many animated cartoons and stop motion animations for young and older audiences. The name, meaning literally ''Se-ma-phore'', is an acr ...

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

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for the Austrian public TV station ORF, 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 '' The New Show''. 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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, Lady Pank,

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, and Rush. One of them – " Imagine" (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 Academy of Media Arts Cologne (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'', 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 American Video Awards, three Monitor Awards (1984-1987), an MTV Video Vanguard Award 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 Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis for Cultural Achievements, and he also received the prestigious

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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) and ''Nowa książka'' (1975). After winning the Academy Award for ''Tango'', Rybczyński moved to New York and embarked on a career directing music videos in the early years of

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. Rybczyński created dozens of music videos for artists including

, Rush,

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, and Lady Pank. His clip for

's ''Imagine'' was created as a showpiece 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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'' - Austrian serial killer film starring Erwin Leder

1984

* "Sign of the Times" - music video for

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from '' They Said It Couldn't Be Done'', 4:25, Elektra/

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* "The Real End" - music video for

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from '' The Magazine'', 4:47,

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* "All That I Wanted" - music video for Belfegore from their eponymous album, 4:15, Elektra Records * "Diana D" - music video for

, 4 min, CBS Records * "

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" - music video for

, 4:30,

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

TV * "The Day Before" - experimental short video, 1:38, ''The New Show'' NBC TV

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 Accept, 3:10,

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* "Minus Zero" - music video for Lady Pank, 3:55,

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* "She Went Pop" - music video for I Am Siam, 4:10, Columbia Records * "Hot Shot" - music video for

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

, 3:45, Island Records * "

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" - music video for

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, 4:15,

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1986

* " Imagine" - experimental HDTV film, 4:20, music by

, Rebo/Rybczynski Productions * "Candy" - HDTV music video for Cameo, 4:20, Polygram Records, Rebo Productions * " The Original Wrapper" - music video for

, 4:40,

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* "I Can't Think About Dancing" - music video for Missing Persons, 4 min, Capitol Records * "Sex Machine" - music video for Fat Boys, 4 min, Tin Pan Apple/ Sutra Records * "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,

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* " OPPORTUNITIES" - music video for

, 3:40,

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1987

* " Let's Work" - HDTV music video for

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

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

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

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* " I'm Beggin' You" - music video for

, 4 min, A&M Records * " Time Stand Still" - music video for Rush, 3:30, Polygram Records * " Something Real" - music video for Mr. Mister, 4:10, BMG Music * " Dragnet 1987" - music video for

, 3 min,

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1988

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

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

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

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, Canal+, 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

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, Canal+, and PBS ''

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

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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 ''

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'', 0:34, HDTV, NBC TV

2004

* ''Une odyssée'' Tunisian movie

2011

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