Take Five

Against a set which has been designed in a Kafkaesque and claustrophobic way, Rybczynski has recreated a World of Kafka which corresponds well with Kafka's maze-like novels. It is an abstract and unpredictable world where Kafka himself moves between the scenes of his own stories, from America via The Castle to Metamorphosis, and The Trial is of course the frame story throughout. Rybczynski has chosen to portray Josef K as an alter ego. Other characters become members of his own family, which means that Rybczynski makes a kind of exemplary, depth psychological close reading of his work.

The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive allegorical and symbolic imagery in this imaginative take on the documentary form.

Zbigniew Rybczinski's video experiments set to classical music pieces.

A ‘paradocumental’ by Dziworski & Rybczynski.

A 'creative documentary' about an Austrian skier who was known during the 70s. Examined from a biographical / visual standpoint.

'And So It Happened' is a series that deals with the different problems women have been facing in Egypt, especially in the Southern parts, between the years 1918 and 2018, showing the difference in ideas and traditions.

A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, looping further through an absurd dance of social disconnection as each character moves in.

Shows a couple (Adam and Eve) and various objects, simultaneously, in time, space and movement.

A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.

Nine cameras set up in a local neighborhood are displayed simultaneously as a man buys a new book.

Zbigniew Rybczynski's experimental short film of a bottle of wine, a parrot in a cage, and a television with news.

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive.

A film editor's setup. A man plays with a balloon.

An experimental video starring a man and a woman who perform a Paganini composition through a series of repeated edited images where they use of objects, noises and small vocalizations in order to emulate music, creating a series of unusual and amusing sequences.

Zbigniew Rybczynski's series of pictures to the music of Kazimierz Serocki.

Based on Lokomotywa, a poem by Julian Tuwim. Made with the use of classical cartoon animation and combined photographs.