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Piotr Kamler

Piotr Kamler

Directing

Biography

Piotr Kamler was born on 30 June 1936 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. He is a director and writer, known for Chronopolis (1982), The Hole (1969) and The Step (1975).

Known For

Chronopolis
5.9

In a gargantuan city lurking in the sky, powerful immortals who have become jaded with eternal life. Most of their time is spent monotonously constructing bizarre and unusual objects while waiting for the ultimate gift to arrive.

Chronopolis

1983
Étude 65
6.0

Etude 65 is a study based on a precedent Kamler's short using the second part Continu-discontinu with a new music composed by the great Beatriz Ferreyra.

Étude 65

1965
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6.6

The short takes place around the Big Bang… probably before. A poor creature called the Spiderelephant spends its life walking in one direction (see why the dimensional aspect is important) and the short recounts what happens when it runs out of a place to walk.

The Spiderelephant

1967
The Heart
7.0

The desperate love of a moonstruck clown for a young lady inside a stopped clock.

The Heart

1973
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No description available.

Boléro

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5.0

A dialogue of forms, colours and movements follow a rhythm which is both plastic and musical.

Danse

1961
The Step
5.4

A short film in which pieces of paper fly off of an animated cube.

The Step

1975
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6.0

The life and power of a distant, red galaxy, which is invaded by an external force, bringing in its wake shadows and destruction.

Galaxie

1964
Labyrinth
7.3

The landscape surveyed here might be the estranged interior of your typical East-European émigré animator’s skull; with its deranged narrative values, artfully disturbed graphic style, and aggressive "musique concrète" sonorities, Kamler's are among the most astounding works you'll ever see... In company of Walerian Borowczyk, Peter Foldes & Arcady, Kamler is the successor to a prestigious tradition of East European émigré animators (think: Alexieff, Bartosch, Starewycz). Like their precursors, they are also among the most distinguished artists in cinema, celebrated for their graphic style and narrative experiment.

Labyrinth

1969
The Hole
6.3

The outrageous and sometimes harrowing adventures of a non-being in search of his ego.

The Hole

1968
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5.0

Piotr Kamler meets Luc Ferrari & Iannis Xenakis. A play of opposites: space, colour, forms, movements

Continu-discontinu

1959
The Green Planet
6.5

An imaginary planet, an abstract universe in continual motion, where minute organisms. half flea half amoeba, the ‘actuphages', live and evolve peacefully.

The Green Planet

1966
An Ephemeral Mission
5.3

An explicit examination of interaction.

An Ephemeral Mission

1993
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No description available.

Casse-noisette

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3.0

Based on abstract images by Kamler, Andre Voisin and Francois Bayle imagined the story of a messenger charged to bring to our planet the key to a forgotten wisdom.

Tournoi

1965
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5.0

A free transposition of a Kafka novel: the peace of an imaginary insect is disturbed by three little balls.

Meurtre

1968
Tale
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A short film from 1960 by Piotr Kamler.

Tale

1960
Winter
6.0

Impressions on the topic of plastics set to Vivaldi's Winter: blizzard, dancing moons, beats ice, sparkling silver crystals, petrified wood frozen.

Winter

1964
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A 1961 short directed by Piotr Kamler.

Composition

1961
Continu-discontinu 2010
6.0

An abstract animated short blending floating particles, light, and classical music. The director's first use of computer animation mirrors his first animated short Continu-discontinu (1959).

Continu-discontinu 2010

2011