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Daniel Szczechura

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Biography

Daniel Szczechura is a Polish director and screenwriter of animated films, set designer and pedagogue. Daniel Szczechura is a renowned Polish director, screenwriter, and set designer, celebrated for his contributions to animated cinema. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Cinematography Department at the National Film School in Łódź. Szczechura's work is characterized by its satirical and philosophical themes, often exploring the human condition and societal issues. Notable films include The Chair (1963), Hobby (1968), and Journey (1970). His innovative storytelling and unique animation techniques have earned him international acclaim, solidifying his status as a pivotal figure in Polish animation.

Known For

Miłość z listy przebojów
5.0

Peter and Eliza are vacationing in the Mazury region. After an argument with her boyfriend, the girl leaves him and goes away. Meanwhile, Eliza's father Jul, a sculptor, organizes a reunion of former members of the student theater in which he performed years ago.

Miłość z listy przebojów

1985
Fatamorgana 2
N/A

In the second part of the film, the optics of the story changes. The block, which emerged from the lake at sunrise, stops wandering, stopping in the water, and its inhabitants indulge in summer relaxation. In the evening - at sunset - they will return, walking on water, to their apartments, and the building will again be immersed in the lake. And all to the rhythm of Zygmunt Konieczny's music, in the first part - more marching, in the second - elegiac.

Fatamorgana 2

1983
Problem
N/A

A humorous grotesque about an average man who asks himself a basic philosophical question about the meaning of existence.

Problem

1977
No image
5.0

A psychedelic animated short about a flying cat.

If You Spot a Cat Flying Through the Air

1971
Hobby
6.8

A woman takes a break from her knitting to snare hapless winged men and deposit them in oversized birdcages.

Hobby

1968
Hobby. Daniel Szczechura. Kilka filmów animowanych jednego autora
N/A

A feature film, which is an author's exhibition of his own work, beginning with a school-era etude titled “Conflicts” - within the framing device of an otherwise empty cinema lit only by the clicking projector. As each segment plays, the auditorium gradually fills until at the very end there is but a single viewer: the director himself.

Hobby. Daniel Szczechura. Kilka filmów animowanych jednego autora

2002
Karol
N/A

Movie joke about a man painting slogans on a wall and the law enforcement officers who try to prevent him from doing so....

Karol

1966
Skarpetka
N/A

The man finds a banknote. With the line it is drawn. , he tries to sketch a house. It turns out that there is not enough of it, instead there is only enough for one sock.

Skarpetka

1978
Journey
6.7

Seemingly, nothing happens in the film; At most, a man forgets something at home and must return. The viewer watches his train journey, the rhythm of the soundtrack determined by pylons whooshing by his cabin window.

Journey

1970
Fatamorgana 1
N/A

A surrealist story about a block of flats that one day went on a journey. The unexpected journey of the monumental building is watched by astonished people, a train passes in the distance, a small yellow Fiat is rolling along the road, an airplane flies across the sky, and the block moves rhythmically through the green, idyllic landscape.

Fatamorgana 1

1981
No image
N/A

A film portrait of Henryk Tomaszewski, one of the greatest poster artists, an outstanding graphic designer, illustrator and educator, co-founder of the school of Polish poster art. He was born in 1914 in Warsaw and died in 2005. Before the war he graduated from the School of Graphic Industry and studied painting at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He was involved in poster art since 1936. He collaborated with the satirical weekly "Szpilki", printed drawings in the Lublin satirical weekly "Stańczyk", and designed scenery for the Warsaw theater "Syrena". In the early 1950s he became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. He educated dozens of graphic artists and poster designers who are famous today. In the film, the protagonist talks about the beginnings of poster art in Poland, his pedagogical work and artistic career. Archival materials were used during the production, and the artist's statements are illustrated with his posters and drawings.

Henryk Tomaszewski

1995
The Machine
5.2

An animated short film in which many men work many years on a machine which is revealed to be something very common.

The Machine

1961
Litera
N/A

A perverse story of an audacious theft of an extremely important letter

Litera

1962
Skok
N/A

Morning. Cold interior of an apartment in a block of flats. The hero gets up, carefully does hi morning rituals, eats breakfast, reads the newspaper, gets dressed, adjusts his tie, looks at his watch, it's 7:50... He'll probably go to work soon. He is in a hurry not to be late... And suddenly, instead of going to the door, he directs his steps to the window. He jumps...

Skok

1978
XYZ
N/A

An important official gives up the lactation of the morning press. Wanting to make the cleaning lady's work easier, he lifts his legs and suddenly rises upwards together with his chair. He floats among the clouds, meets strange figures, observes various situations hears sounds. He finishes reading the newspaper and leaves the room.

XYZ

1986
Gorejące palce
N/A

Five men hang a sixth from the bare-leafed thick branch of a huge tree. The execution is secretly observed by a seventh man. At night, he will sneak into the executioners' house to take revenge

Gorejące palce

1975
Conflicts
5.0

A parody of early cinematic conventions and a mockery of the movie audience, which gets excited about a bloody melodrama featuring a love triangle and a revolver, and protests when the animator, at the request of some commission, changes the finale into one deprived of blood.

Conflicts

1960
The Chair
6.1

A story about the fight for power told with the help of simple graphics. The huge building, the huge column hall, one chair around the chairman's board table is empty. We observe the fight for that chair: little men run and fight, all tricks are allowed.

The Chair

1963
Dobranocka
8.0

The protagonist of the film is a rabbit (hare), who experiences various adventures, meets strange people and strange situations. The film begins with a sequence of dreams, but the dream events are repeated in the real world and have their continuation. Everything ends well. This is how the plot looks like in a nutshell. But the mood and atmosphere of the film is difficult to verbalize, because it is assumed to be ambiguous, just as the painting of Stasys Eidrigevičius is ambiguous.

Dobranocka

1997
Pierwszy drugi trzeci...
6.0

Lapidary story of an average spectator watching ski jumping.

Pierwszy drugi trzeci...

1964