1 Reel Film Festival
in association with the Polish Cultural Institute
presents

50 YEARS OF POLISH ANIMATION!

as part of the 38th Bumbershoot Festival

Jan Lenica, Labyrinth, 1962, Poland, 14' 14"

SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 2008, 2:00 PM

SIFF Cinema
321 Mercer Street at 3rd Avenue, Seattle Center, Seattle, tel. (206) 633-7151
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50 YEARS OF POLISH ANIMATION! is an exceptionally exciting program of short films that will be shown at the SIFF Cinema as part of the 38th Bumbershoot Festival – North America’s largest urban arts festival. The 47-minute program offers a selection of the best Polish animated films from 1958 till the present, films that are part of the legacy of Poland’s world-renowned accomplishment in animation and the graphic arts. The selection covers a remarkable variety of techniques and styles, from the still-spellbinding collage animations of Walerian Borowczyk and poster-artist Jan Lenica from the 1950s and ‘60s, to the mind-boggling sophistication of Zbigniew Rybczynski’s use of stop-motion in his Oscar-winning Tango (1980), to Piotr Dumala’s haunting “plaster-plate” animations from the 1980s that seem etched in stone, to a short, sardonic classical animation from 2000 by Mariusz Wilczynski, whose work was shown at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 2007, four years after a major retrospective of Polish animation there.

The BUMBERSHOOT FESTIVAL has attracted artists representing the best in music, film, comedy, spoken word, dance, theatre, performance, and visual arts to present their work over Labor Day weekend. It all takes place in the heart of the city at the 74-acre Seattle Center. Over 150,000 visitors from near and far will spend the weekend reveling in the world of Bumbershoot, experiencing everything from regional favorites to international superstars from virtually all disciplines in the arts.

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