Marcin Giżycki

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Marcin Giżycki
Giżycki in 2007
Born(1951-09-26)26 September 1951
Warsaw, Poland
Died21 October 2022(2022-10-21) (aged 71)
Warsaw, Poland
NationalityPolish
Occupations
  • Film historian
  • art historian
  • critic
  • film maker

Marcin Giżycki (26 September 1951 – 21 October 2022) was a Polish film and art historian, critic, and filmmaker.

Animafest, the World Festival of Animated Film in Zagreb, Croatia.[5]

He died on 21 October 2022.[6]

Education and professional experience

Giżycki received his MA and Ph.D. in art history from the

ASIFA quarterly Animafilm (1979–1981), was part of the editorial staff at Projekt in Warsaw (1979–1983) and an art critic for Literatura (1978–1981). In 1983 he taught at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College in Farnham, England (formerly known as West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham). He was vice-president of the College of the Visual Arts and New Media in Warsaw, Poland (2002–2003). In 2012–2015 he was a professor at the Wyższa Szkoła Techniczna w Katowicach
(Katowice School of Technology), Katowice, Poland.

Associations

Polish Art Historians' Association, Polish Filmmakers' Association,

ASIFA
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Filmography (experimental / animations)

  • 106 Olney Street (2007)
  • Sicilian Flea (2008)
  • Panta Rhei (2008)
  • Aquatura (2010)
  • Panta Rhei Bis (2011)
  • Kinefaktura (2012)
  • AE (2012)
  • The Red Double Bass (2013)
  • FFF1 (2013)
  • F.I.T. (2013)
  • Haiku (2015)
  • Mono Canne (2015)
  • Watch Your Thoughts (2015)
  • FH (2015)
  • Stone Story (2016)
  • Monument (2016)
  • White Curtain (2016)
  • Theatrum Magicum (2017)
  • Sculptor with a Camera (2018)
  • Jellyfish (2018)
  • Sunset (2019)
  • Arrow Board Game (2021)
  • Der Blaue Reiter (2021)
  • Tide (2021)

Filmography (documentaries)

  • A James Barnhill Portrait, with Peter O'Neill (1994)
  • Jerzy Sołtan. Człowiek, który Polski nie zbudował [Jerzy Sołtan, The Man Who Never Built Poland], with Sławomir Grünberg (1995)
  • Ubu Roi: A Hundred Years After The Premiere (1996)
  • I Am Providence: A Story of H.P. Lovecraft and His City, with Agnieszka Taborska (1997)
  • The Making a “Hand-e-over", with Peter O'Neill (1997)
  • Unorthodox Geometry, with Peter O'Neill (1998)
  • The Island of Jan Lenica (1998)
  • Daniel Szczechura’s Travels (2005)
  • Alfred Schreyer from Drohobycz (2010)
  • A Magic-Lantern Life: The Story of The American Magic Lantern Theater (2014, with Peter O’Neill)
  • RISD Cabaret Story (2021)

Awards at film festivals (selection)

Books published (selection)

  • Limeryki [Limericks], Krakow, Budapest, Syracuse: Austeria, 2023
  • Blues, Krakow, Budapest, Syracuse: Austeria, 2022
  • Kino—Media—Sztuka—Twórcy. Szkice [Cinema—Media—Art.—Artists: Essays, Warsaw: Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology], 2017
  • Wenders do domu! Europejskie filmy o Ameryce i ich recepcja w Stanach Zjednoczonych [Wenders Go Home! European Films on America and Their Reception in the US], Gdansk: slowo/obraz terytoria, 2006
  • Słownik kierunków, ruchów i kluczowych pojec sztuki II połowy XX wieku [Dictionary of Movements and Key Notions of Art of the 2nd Half of the 20th Century], Gdansk: slowo/obraz terytoria, 2002
  • Koniec i co dalej? Szkice o postmodernizmie, sztuce współczesnej i końcu wieku [The End and What Next? Essays on Postmodernism, Contemporary Art, and the End of the Century], Gdansk: slowo/obraz terytoria, 2001
  • Nie tylko Disney [Disney Was Not the Only One], Warsaw: WAiF & PWN, 2000
  • Awangarda wobec kina. Film w kregu polskiej awangardy artystycznej w dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym [Avant-Garde and Cinema: Film in Polish Avant-Garde Circles Between the Wars], Warsaw: Wydawnictwo małe, 1996
  • Walka o film artystyczny w międzywojennej Polsce [A Battle for Artistic Film in Poland Between the Wars], Warsaw: PWN, 1989

Photography in publications

  • Polubić muzykę coutry. Dziennik amerykańskiej podróży [Getting to Like Country Music: A Journal of an American Cross-Country Trip], by Agnieszka Taborska, Warsaw: NOWA, 1995
  • Okruchy amerykańskie [American Crumbs], by Agnieszka Taborska, Warsaw: Twój Styl, 2006
  • Providence, by Agnieszka Taborska, Krakow, Budapest, Syracuse: Austeria, 2017
  • Paryż surrealistyczny [Surrealist Paris], by Agnieszka Taborska, Krakow, Budapest, Syracuse: Austeria, 2017
  • Bretania [Brittany], by Agnieszka Taborska, Krakow, Budapest, Syracuse: Austeria, 2018
  • Blues, Krakow, Budapest, Syracuse: Austeria, 2018

References

  1. ^ "Marcin Gizycki". Vimeo.
  2. ^ "Marcin Gizycki". IMDb.
  3. ^ "Marcin Giżycki | Polish Japanese Academy of Information Technology - Academia.edu". pja.academia.edu.
  4. ^ "Marcin Gizycki | Faculty | Theory + History of Art + Design | RISD". www.risd.edu.
  5. ^ "animafest.hr". animafest.hr.
  6. ^ http://www.psb.pan.krakow.pl/index.php/pl/10-wydarzenia/105-30-maja-2020-roku-zmarl-stanislaw-grodziski-18
  7. ^ "Marcin Gizycki".
  8. ^ "POLISH SHORTS: Marcin Giżycki -". Polish Shorts.