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The 25th jubilee of the Film School animation and special effects faculty already in a month's time! The celebrations will start with an exhibition on May 16 organized at the Art Promotion Centre.
The jubilee exhibition "Animation 25" will be presented at City Art Galleries - Art Promotion Centre in Sienkiewicza Park in Łodz from 16 May till 7 June, 2014.
Animation Film Workshop was founded in 1969 at the Cinematography Department at the Lodz Film School as an initiative of Jerzy Kotowski. The cinematographers Zofia Ołdak, Daniel Szczechura and Stanisław Śliskowski have devoted their whole artistic lives to the art of animation. It was where Zbigniew Rybczyński, the Oscar winner for the film "Tango" (1983), learned the basics of his craft.
The Workshop which functioned for 16 years, was open to student innovative ideas and experiments. Then it was transformed into 2 year post graduate course in animation (1985) under the supervision of prof. Henryk Ryszka. In those years among the lecturers there were: Stefan Schabenbeck, Jerzy Wiktorowski, world famous artist Mirosław Kijowicz and screenwriter and animated film theoretician Andrzej Kossakowski.
Among the course graduates there are the artists: Alina Skiba, Marek Serafiński, Marek Skrobecki and Aleksander Sroczyński.
The two year post graduate animation course lasted for 3 years. Then 4 year MA studies were started the curriculum of which was created by prof. Henryk Ryszka. This is how the animation and special effects faculty was established at the Cinematography Department. The first enrolment for the course took place in 1989, twenty years after establishing the Animation Film Workshop. Professors Kazimierz Urbański, Stanisław Śliskowski, and Marian Kiełbaszczak shared their knowledge and experience with the students. From its beginnings until now prof. Henryk Ryszka has undoubtedly been the master for generations of students. Among the present animation lecturers there are artists such as Piotr Dumała, Marek Skrobecki and Mariusz Wilczyński.
On the occasion of the anniversary we have been preparing a multimedia exhibition "Animation 25", which will present in a modern and impressive way over two dozen year long existence of film animation art at the Lodz Film School, as well as animation graduates and changes in animation techniques starting from "analogue animation" being produced until mid 90ties of the 20th century up to still present "digital revolution". Student films representing bold experiments in the field of film technology and the highest artistic standard have placed themselves at the level of the world authors cinema.
"Animation 25" exhibition is also a project which aims at creating a huge archive – the data base of materials connected with animation film production at the Lodz Film School. We will present among others: screenplays, drawings, animation tests, storyboards, layouts etc.
- For the past 25 years there have been changes, which could be described as a permanent technological evolution - says Krzysztof Rynkiewicz, PhD., head of animation and special effects faculty. – But one thing remains constant. We are still taking young people on a journey to the land where verbal language is not used, where things, phenomena and emotions have to be identified in a different way. What’s real gets transformed into the unreal through animation film language. It turns out it’s still the same reality but clearer and sharper. In those 25 years many artists made use of the ability to converse with the whole world about subjective perception of life. And what is more important, their artistic work is well received and approved of.
Animation Film Workshop was founded in 1969 at the Cinematography Department at the Lodz Film School as an initiative of Jerzy Kotowski. The cinematographers Zofia Ołdak, Daniel Szczechura and Stanisław Śliskowski have devoted their whole artistic lives to the art of animation. It was where Zbigniew Rybczyński, the Oscar winner for the film "Tango" (1983), learned the basics of his craft.
The Workshop which functioned for 16 years, was open to student innovative ideas and experiments. Then it was transformed into 2 year post graduate course in animation (1985) under the supervision of prof. Henryk Ryszka. In those years among the lecturers there were: Stefan Schabenbeck, Jerzy Wiktorowski, world famous artist Mirosław Kijowicz and screenwriter and animated film theoretician Andrzej Kossakowski.
Among the course graduates there are the artists: Alina Skiba, Marek Serafiński, Marek Skrobecki and Aleksander Sroczyński.
The two year post graduate animation course lasted for 3 years. Then 4 year MA studies were started the curriculum of which was created by prof. Henryk Ryszka. This is how the animation and special effects faculty was established at the Cinematography Department. The first enrolment for the course took place in 1989, twenty years after establishing the Animation Film Workshop. Professors Kazimierz Urbański, Stanisław Śliskowski, and Marian Kiełbaszczak shared their knowledge and experience with the students. From its beginnings until now prof. Henryk Ryszka has undoubtedly been the master for generations of students. Among the present animation lecturers there are artists such as Piotr Dumała, Marek Skrobecki and Mariusz Wilczyński.
On the occasion of the anniversary we have been preparing a multimedia exhibition "Animation 25", which will present in a modern and impressive way over two dozen year long existence of film animation art at the Lodz Film School, as well as animation graduates and changes in animation techniques starting from "analogue animation" being produced until mid 90ties of the 20th century up to still present "digital revolution". Student films representing bold experiments in the field of film technology and the highest artistic standard have placed themselves at the level of the world authors cinema.
"Animation 25" exhibition is also a project which aims at creating a huge archive – the data base of materials connected with animation film production at the Lodz Film School. We will present among others: screenplays, drawings, animation tests, storyboards, layouts etc.
- For the past 25 years there have been changes, which could be described as a permanent technological evolution - says Krzysztof Rynkiewicz, PhD., head of animation and special effects faculty. – But one thing remains constant. We are still taking young people on a journey to the land where verbal language is not used, where things, phenomena and emotions have to be identified in a different way. What’s real gets transformed into the unreal through animation film language. It turns out it’s still the same reality but clearer and sharper. In those 25 years many artists made use of the ability to converse with the whole world about subjective perception of life. And what is more important, their artistic work is well received and approved of.