Jerzy Kucia

Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations on the standard countdown.

In sharp monochromatic tones, the slow and difficult hatching of an insect, followed by the discovery of the harsh nature of its new world.

The film shows the process of evoking feelings and searching for landscape specificity by recounting events which have taken place in the scenery.

A study of loneliness and passing away.

The harvest season recalls past time, gives rise to reflections, memories. The logic of the aftermath of events is replaced here by the logic of memory.

Experimental animated short about a man returning by train.

Various animated depictions of movement, accompanied by different instrumental and ambient sound arrangements.

An atmospheric impression about spring. Everything wakes up to life. Even a cluttered old-fashioned flat will succumb to its allure.

Cut-up, mixed techniques. A story of a passenger travelling up with a lift. Disconnected memories, devoted from emotions confront with the emptiness of the urban landscape.

1978 Polish animated short

Kucia's most recent film, Across the Field (1992), is his longest and arguably his most complex film in terms of imagery. In it, he applies many of the various techniques he has developed for his films over the years, the result being a rich collage of drawing, photographic images, and live-action film footage whose individual frames he has manipulated. This complex technique exists, according to Kucia, only as a vehicle to evoke the mood and emotion he wishes the audience to experience. This Impressionist approach to filmmaking is no doubt what inspired Marcin Gizycki to dub Kucia the "Bresson of Polish animated film."

Animated, various techniques. A bareer is slowly moving down at the railroad. It prevents people from passing across the road. While waiting, people start to think and dream. Their dreams influence a guy who watches them from a tiny house nearby.

A film on the subject of the passing time and the irrevocability of time.

Cut-up, mixed techniques. A story of a passenger travelling up with a lift. Disconnected memories, devoted from emotions confront with the emptiness of the urban landscape.