Zbigniew Rybczyński

Rybczyński worked across film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, film editor and university teacher and 5 further recorded occupations. This article rests on 3 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

Zbigniew Rybczyński studied at National Film School in Łódź. The recorded working language is Polish. Residence is recorded at Poland and United States. Employment is recorded with Joshibi University of Art and Design and Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Work by Zbigniew Rybczyński is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art and ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Distinctions recorded are Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and Golden Medal for Merit to Culture.

• Name — Zbigniew Rybczyński • Born — 27 January 1949 • Birthplace — Łódź, Poland

Rybczyński was born in Łódź, Poland. He grew up in Warsaw, where he attended a secondary-level art school and then worked briefly at the |Studio Miniatur Filmowych (1968-1969). He studied cinematography at the Łódź Film School (1969-1973); his thesis films were Take Five and Plamuz. During his studies, he became a founding member of the Film Form Workshop (Warsztat Formy Filmowej), the most important Polish neo avant-garde group. He also honed his film-making skills working as a cinematographer for young directors like Andrzej Barański, Piotr Andrejew, Wojciech Wiszniewski, and Filip Bajon on shorts, documentaries and educational films, and on Grzegorz Królikiewicz's feature-length The Dancing Hawk (Tańczący Jastrząb). His films from the period include: The Talk (Rozmowa, TV) and Gropingly (Po Omacku) by Andrejew, Videocassette (Wideokaseta) by Bajon, and Wanda Gościmińska. Włókniarka by Wiszniewski. From 1973 to 1980, Rybczyński made his own films at the Se-Ma-For Studio in Łódź. He established the Dr. Stanzl special effects studio in Vienna for the Austrian public TV station ORF, and worked there from 1977 to 1980. During the political unrest in Poland in 1980, he was the head of the founders' committee of the Se-Ma-For studio branch of Solidarity.

In 1982, during the martial law period, he managed to arrange a job contract that enabled him to leave Poland for Vienna, where he applied for political asylum. The following year, he and his family emigrated to the US, where they lived in Los Angeles and then New York. The first works he made in the US were the short experimental videos "The Day Before" and "The Discreet Charm of the Diplomacy", both made in 1984 on a commission from NBC's The New Show. In 1985, he launched his own studio – ZBIG VISION – in New York, which he subsequently outfitted with the latest video, computer and HDTV technology. It was in this studio that he made his most important American films, including Steps (1987), The Fourth Dimension (1988), The Orchestra (1990), Manhattan (1991), and Kafka (1992), which were showered with enthusiastic critical acclaim and numerous awards. In the, US he also made short music-based pieces that added to his popularity and acclaim. Between 1984 and 1989, he made more than 30 music videos for such artists as Mick Jagger, Yoko Ono, Lou Reed, Simple Minds, Cameo, Art of Noise, Chuck Mangione, Pet Shop Boys, Lady Pank, The Alan Parsons Project, Supertramp, and Rush. One of them – "Imagine" (1986), made for John Lennon's composition – was the first music video ever made using high-definition technology. In 1994, Rybczyński moved to Germany, where he co-founded the Centrum Für Neue Bildgestaltung, an experimental film center in Berlin, and later worked in Cologne. He returned to Los Angeles in 2001, where he worked for the Ultimatte Corporation and continued his research in the area where art, science, and digital technology intersect working out new standards for moving images. Among the results of Rybczyński's long-term research and experimentation are his inventions in the field of electronic-image technology, for which he holds several US patents, and which are widely used in the film and TV industries. In March 2009, Rybczyński returned to Poland, taking up residence in Wrocław, where he set up the Center for Audiovisual Technologies (CeTa) at the site of the city's historic Feature Film Studio. The center, which officially opened in January 2013, includes a state-of-the-art studio designed by Rybczyński for the production of multi-layer film images, and an institute for research into images and visual technologies. Rybczyński was a professor at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (1998-2001), and has also taught at many other art and film schools, including the National Film School in Łódź, Columbia University in New York, and Yoshiba University of Art and Design in Tokyo. In 2014, Rybczyński settled on a two acre ranch near Tucson, Arizona. Together with his wife, Dorota Zglobicka who is also a filmmaker, Zbig created Gila Monster Studios. Currently, they are in pre-production for their upcoming feature film, The Designer.

• Year — Film title — Duration — Film Type — Shoot Location • 1972 — Kwadrat (Square) — 4:40 — 35 mm short film — PWSFTviT Łódź, Poland • Take Five — 3:36 — 35 mm short film — PWSFTviT Łódź, Poland • 1973 — Plamuz (Music Art) — 9:38 — 35 mm short film — SMFF Se-Ma-For Łódź, Poland • 1974 — Zupa (Soup) — 8:22 — 35 mm short film — SMFF Se-Ma-For Łódź, Poland • 1975 — Nowa Książka (New Book) — 10:26 — 35 mm short film — SMFF Se-Ma-For Łódź, Poland • Lokomotywa (Locomotive) — 9:38 — 35 mm short film — SMFF Se-Ma-For Łódź, Poland • Święto (Holiday) — 9:38 — 35 mm short film — SMFF Se-Ma-For Łódź, Poland • 1976 — Oj! Nie Mogę Się Zatrzymać! (Oh, I Can't Stop!) — 10:07 — 35 mm short film — SMFF Se-Ma-For Łódź, Poland • Weg Zum Nachbarn (Way To Your Neighbor) — 2:30 — 35 mm short film — SMFF Se-Ma-For Łódź, Poland • 1977 — Piątek - Sobota (Friday - Saturday) — 3:00 — 35 mm short film — SMFF Se-Ma-For Łódź, Poland • 1979 — Mein Fenster (My Window) — 2:26 — 35 mm short film — Vienna • 1980 — Tango — 8:14 — 35 mm short film — SMFF Se-Ma-For Łódź, Poland • Media — 1:36 — 35 mm short film — SMFF Se-Ma-For Łódź, Poland • Sceny Narciarskie z Franzem Klammeren (Ski Scenes with Franz Klammer) — 9:38 — 35 mm documentary film — in collaboration with B. Dziworski, WFO Łódź, Poland and Signal Film, Vienna • 1981 — Wdech-Wydech (Inhale-Exhale) — 2:26 — 35 mm short film — in collaboration with B. Dziworski, SMFF Se-Ma-For Łódź, for TVP, Poland

• Angst - Austrian serial killer film starring Erwin Leder

• "Sign of the Times" - music video for Grandmaster Flash from They Said It Couldn't Be Done, 4:25, Elektra/Asylum Records • "The Real End" - music video for Rickie Lee Jones from The Magazine, 4:47, Warner Bros. • "All That I Wanted" - music video for Belfegore from their eponymous album, 4:15, Elektra Records • "Diana D" - music video for Chuck Mangione, 4 min, CBS Records • "Close (to the Edit)" - music video for Art of Noise, 4:30, Island Records • "The Discreet Charm of the Diplomacy" - experimental short video, 2:56, The New Show NBC TV • "The Day Before" - experimental short video, 1:38, The New Show NBC TV

• "Lose Your Love" - music video for Blancmange, 3:54, Warner Bros. • "Alive and Kicking" - music video for Simple Minds, 5:25, A&M Records • "Ultimo Ballo (The Last Dance)" - music video for Angel / Maimone Entreprise, 4:50, Virgin Records • "Midnight Mover" - music video for Accept, 3:10, Epic Records • "Minus Zero" - music video for Lady Pank, 3:55, MCA Records • "She Went Pop" - music video for I Am Siam, 4:10, Columbia Records • "Hot Shot" - music video for Jimmy Cliff, 3:55, CBS Records • "p:Machinery" - music video for Propaganda, 3:45, Island Records • "Who Do You Love" - music video for Bernard Wright, 4:15, Capitol Records

• "Imagine" - experimental HDTV film, 4:20, music by John Lennon, Rebo/Rybczynski Productions • "Candy" - HDTV music video for Cameo, 4:20, Polygram Records, Rebo Productions • "The Original Wrapper" - music video for Lou Reed, 4:40, RCA Records • "I Can't Think About Dancing" - music video for Missing Persons, 4 min, Capitol Records • "Sex Machine" - music video for Fat Boys, 4 min, Tin Pan Apple/Sutra Records • "All the Things She Said" - music video for Simple Minds, 4:15, Virgin Records • "Hell in Paradise" - music video for Yoko Ono, 3:30, OnoVideo/Polygram Records • "Stereotomy" - music video for The Alan Parsons Project, 4:10, Arista Records • "OPPORTUNITIES" - music video for Pet Shop Boys, 3:40, EMI Records

• "Let's Work" - HDTV music video for Mick Jagger, 4:05, CBS Records • "Why Should I Cry?" - HDTV music video for Nona Hendryx, 4 min, EMI Records, Rebo Productions • "Keep Your Eye On Me" - HDTV music video for Herb Alpert, 5:15, A&M RECORDS, Rebo Productions • Steps - experimental video/35mm film, 26 min, Zbig Vision, KCTA-TV (PBS), Channel Four • "I'm Beggin' You" - music video for Supertramp, 4 min, A&M Records • "Time Stand Still" - music video for Rush, 3:30, Polygram Records • "Something Real" - music video for Mr. Mister, 4:10, BMG Music • "Dragnet 1987" - music video for Art of Noise, 3 min, Chrysalis Records

• Fluff - opening sequence video, 1:47, HDTV, RAI • The Duel - a tribute to G.Melies, 4:08, HDTV, Telegraph • Blue Like You - HDTV music video for Étienne Daho, 3:41, Virgin Records • The Fourth Dimension - experimental 35 mm film, 27 min, Zbig Vision, Rai 3, Canal+, and KTCA-TV (PBS)

• Capriccio no.24 - experimental HDTV film, 6:18, TVE's The Art of Video • You Better Dance - HDTV music video for The Jets, 3:34, MCA Records • Cowbell - HDTV music video for Takeshi Itoh, 4 min, CBS Records • GMF Groupe - promo, 2:03, HDTV, Zbig Vision and Ex Nihilo

• The Orchestra - HDTV long film, 57:11, Zbig Vision and Ex Nihilo, coproduced by NHK, Canal+, and PBS Great Performances. • Video Hits One - 17 network IDs for VH1

• Manhattan - experimental HDTV film, 28 min, Zbig Vision and NHK Enterprises USA, Inc. • Washington - experimental HDTV film, 28 min, Zbig Vision and NHK Enterprises USA, Inc.

• Kafka - HDTV long film, 52:16, Télémax, Les Editions Audiovisuelles • Curtains - opening sequence for Tonight Show, 0:34, HDTV, NBC TV

• Une odyssée Tunisian movie

• The Vision, 2011, co-director Dorota Zgłobicka, Zbig Vision, Polska

Zbigniew Rybczyński is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as cinematographer, screenwriter, film editor, university teacher and director. Established in Bibliothèque nationale de France under 14062791h. Established in Library of Congress under n83045976. Established in Discogs under 5791549. Established in FAST under 110975. Rybczyński received Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1983. Rybczyński received Golden Medal for Merit to Culture.