Mariusz Wilczyński - My Cinema on Duty
O sole mio
A music video to a piece sung by opera singer Sylwester Kostecki and played by Włodzimierz Kiniorski, an excellent jazz, rock and world-music composer and multi-instrumentalist.
Robert Baliński
Born in 1963, he graduated from the Cinematography Department of the Łódź Film School. He has shot and produced numerous documentaries, live concerts, and music videos, including for artists such as T-Love, Józef Skrzek, Tadeusz Nalepa, Sylwester Kostecki and Sinior Kinior, Urszula Dudziak, Mathias Raim, Magda Femme, Marek Błaszczyk.
1993 Droga do Delf (doc.)
1993 Józef Skrzek – Rak (doc., short)
1994 O sole mio (co-dir., short)
1994 Tadeusz Nalepa – Panna (doc.)
1994 Sylwester Kostecki – Lew (doc.)
1995 Urszula Dudziak – Waga (doc.)
1996 Graffiti (doc.)
1997 Techno (doc.)
1996 Angelo Pistoletto (doc.)
2001 Jak się to wszystko kręci (co-dir., doc.)
Justice
A music video to a song by Jorgos Skolias and Tie Break, a group established in 1977 by guitarist Janusz ‘Yanina’ Iwański and bassist Krzysztof Majchrzak. The group continues to performing occasionally, including projects with numerous excellent jazz and rock musicians, e.g, Tomasz Stańko, Stanisław Sojka, Andrzej Urny, Włodzimierz Kiniorski, Antoni ‘Ziut’ Gralak, Marcin and Mateusz Pospieszalski.
Allegro ma non troppo
A music video for Stanisław Sojka’s song based upon Allegro ma non troppo, a poem by Wisława Szymborska, it is a riot of surprising ideas and a collage of diverse animation techniques. Life, you’re beautiful (I say) // you just couldn’t get more fecund, // more befrogged or nightingale-like, // more anthillful or sproutspouting. // I’m trying to court life’s favor, // to get into its good graces, // to anticipate its whims. // I’m always the first to bow // with my humble, reverent face, writes the poet (trans. Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh).
I Hate
A music video for the song I Hate by Agnieszka Chylińska and the O.N.A. (a cover of Laibach). I hate when you always say so // I hate your wet dreams about me // I hate when you say that you know me // I hate when you try to live like me, sings the vocalist.
Bookclips
A selection of ten of about two hundred bookclips, that is, the animatied-performative shorts translating the latest and most interesting book publications (for example by Herbert, Hass, Wencel, Holub, Mrożek and Świetlicki) into visual language, which aired on a weekly basis during the Cultural Messenger show on TVP 1.
Lullabies
A selection of five out of sixteen animated lullabies sung by folk singers and Justyna Steczkowska, Stanisław Sojka and Jorgos Skolias.
Werewolves
A selection of ten animated shorts translating the latest book releases into visual language. They aired on TVP 2 during Beata Tyszkiewicz’s I Like Reading show.
The Best of TVP Kultura
The best selections from the original design of a Polish TV cultural channel – TVP Kultura (TVP Culture).
Mariusz Wilczyński
Screenwriter, animated film and TV shorts designer and director. A painter, cartoonist, set designer, actor, and teacher. Wilczyński takes on various artistic tasks successfully combining several artistic disciplines (musical-art-cinematic performances). He was born on 29 April 1960 in Łódź. A graduate from the Faculty of Painting and Graphic Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź (1986), where he studied at the painting atelier of Prof. Stanisław Fijałkowski and wood engraving atelier of Andrzej Marian Bartczak. Wilczyński's work has been exhibited in Poland (16 individual exhibitions) as well as in Amsterdam, Bruges, Budapest, Chicago, London, Madrid, Oslo, Sofia, Wakayama and Yokohama. He produces original animated films and so-called applied animation productions.
Selected filmography
1998 Czasy przeszły / Times Have Passed (short)
1999 Szop, szop, szop, Szopę… / Chop, Chop, Chop, Chopin… (short)
2000 Mojej Mamie i sobie / For My Mother and Me (short)
2000 Wśród nocnej ciszy / In the Stillness of the Night (short)
2004 Niestety / Unfortunately (short)
2007 Kizi Mizi (short)
videoclips
1994 O sole mio (co-dir.)
1996 Sprawiedliwość / Justice
1997–1998 Kołysanki / Lullabys
1998 Allegro ma non troppo
1999 From the Green Hill
1999 Nienawidzę / I Hate
2002 Śmierć na pięć / Death to Five
TV
1995–1999 Księgoklipy (etiudy animowane, TVP 1, program Goniec Kulturalny) / Bookclips (animated etudes, TVP 1, a programme Cultural Messenger)
2003–2005 Wilkołaki (etiudy animowane, TVP 2, program Lubię czytać) / Werewolves (animated etudes, TVP 2, a programme I Like Reading)
2005–2010 TVP Kultura (oprawa plastyczna kanału TVP Kultura) / TVP Culture (artistic design of the channel TVP Culture)