For the first decade of his career Walerian Borowczyk exclusively made short films initially in his native Poland but then mostly in France where he settled permanently in the late 1950s. This disc includes the vast majority of the shorts that he made between 1959 and 1984 apart from ones that were originally intended to accompany specific features. Far from being prentice work or optional extras the shorts include many of his greatest films such as the cut-out Astronauts the reverse-motion Renaissance and the extraordinary Angels Games a one-off masterpiece... of the macabre that would alone establish Borowczyk as one of the cinema s most innovative artists. In 1967 Borowczyk made his feature debut a grotesque and surreal fantasy about the physically and temperamentally mismatched couple Mr & Mrs Kabal. Made with a tiny production team at a time when animated feature films were far scarcer than they are now it s almost the polar opposite of a Disney film with angular mainly monochrome graphics bringing the Kabals universe to startlingly vivid life. Both this and all the short films are presented in brand new high-definition restorations from original 35mm elements. [show more]
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Collection of films by Polish director Walerian Borowczyk. In the animated feature 'Mr and Mrs Kabal's Theatre' (1967), the story follows the lives of Mr Kabal (voice of Pierre Collet) and his mechanical monster wife (Louisette Rousseau) who get on each other's nerves but can't imagine being apart. When Mrs Kabal suffers from indigestion after eating a butterfly, her husband has to travel inside her to find the source of the problem. Also included are 12 short films which comprise: 'Astronauts' (1959), 'The Concert' (1962), 'Grandmother's Encyclopaedia' (1963), 'Renaissance' (1963), 'Angels' Games' (1964), 'Joachim's Dictionary' (1965), 'Rosalie' (1966), 'Gavotte' (1967), 'Diptych' (1967), 'The Phonograph' (1969), 'The Greatest Love of All Time' (1978) and 'Scherzo Infernal' (1984).
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