
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

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

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
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

The desperate love of a moonstruck clown for a young lady inside a stopped clock.
The Heart
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Boléro
A dialogue of forms, colours and movements follow a rhythm which is both plastic and musical.
Danse

A short film in which pieces of paper fly off of an animated cube.
The Step
The life and power of a distant, red galaxy, which is invaded by an external force, bringing in its wake shadows and destruction.
Galaxie

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

The outrageous and sometimes harrowing adventures of a non-being in search of his ego.
The Hole
Piotr Kamler meets Luc Ferrari & Iannis Xenakis. A play of opposites: space, colour, forms, movements
Continu-discontinu

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

An explicit examination of interaction.
An Ephemeral Mission
No description available.
Casse-noisette
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
A free transposition of a Kafka novel: the peace of an imaginary insect is disturbed by three little balls.
Meurtre

A short film from 1960 by Piotr Kamler.
Tale

Impressions on the topic of plastics set to Vivaldi's Winter: blizzard, dancing moons, beats ice, sparkling silver crystals, petrified wood frozen.
Winter
A 1961 short directed by Piotr Kamler.
Composition

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).