【2022 Weiwuying International Music Festival】Film: The Orchestra by Zbig RYBCZYNSKI
Born in Poland, RYBCZYNSKI is undoubtedly one of the most imaginative directors of the contemporary era. Ever since the 70's he has dug deep into special effects, such as extensive use of green screen shooting. The most special thing in his works is that they often start from real scenarios, then veer into many surreal plots, forming a highly personal worldview. He once mentioned in an interview: "I like the concept of 'contemporary'. My videos will integrate different times. I don't want to directly portray the "current time" because the present and the past are one as a whole."
The Orchestra is his masterpiece completed in 1990. The film is a combination of six fantasy short films. Instead of using music as the background soundtrack, each section makes the image and the music counterpoint each other. For example, in the fifth part, when the newlyweds dance naked in the church, the music is SCHUBERT's Ave Maria. The last part features RAVEL's Boléro mixed with depictions of the rise and fall of the communist system, a vivid and stunning image.
Post-talk
2022/4/10(Sun)18:00-18:30 Lecture Hall
Lecturer｜Pin Hung CHENG (Ryan CHENG)
Artists Introduction
Zbig RYBCZYNSKI is an internationally renowned filmmaker, HD pioneer and an innovator in the film's technical field. He received numerous prestigious awards, including- Oscar, Emmy, 3xMTV's, Cannes Silver Palm, among many others in the USA, Europe, Asia, and South America. He created music videos for Mick Jagger, Yoko Ono, GrandMasterFlash, Simple Minds, and many others. He is an MTV Hall of Fame inductee.
Zbig directed and produced over 50 film titles so far.
Zbig's work was seen on many TV Channels and TV programs in the USA, including Great Performances PBS, Tonight Show NBC, 20/20, Night Flight, MTV, as well as in Europe and Asia: CANAL+, RAI, ZDF, NHK JAPAN, TVP2, TV POLSAT, and more.
In 1985, he launched his film studio – ZBIG VISION – in New York, where he created his most important and innovative HDTV films: Steps (1987), The Fourth Dimension (1988), The Orchestra (1990), Manhattan (1991), and Kafka (1992), all of which were showered with enthusiastic critical acclaim and numerous awards. Zbig is a pioneer of HDTV technology, an innovator and experimentator in the film's technical field. He's the author of several US patents regarding film techniques, including motion control, optics, and compositing.
Between 1985-2013, Zbig worked in the USA, Germany, and Poland, developing innovative methods and systems to produce visual special effects. His major contribution during this period was developing a one-of-a kind film studio, equipped with electronic technology for creating and compositing multi-layer images in real time. It largely eliminates the need for post-production, which fundamentally changes the methodology of the creative process, efficiently reducing overall production costs. 2010-2013, Zbig worked in Wroclaw, Poland, where he designed, build, and directed a unique studio – Audiovisual Technology Center. CeTA is a novel, state of-the-art facility for the production of real-time, multi-layer film images.
His distinguished academic career include teaching at the Columbia University in New York, the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany, Poland's Lodz Film School and visiting professor at Joshibi University of Art and Design in Tokyo, Japan.
Zbig lives and works in the USA with his wife Dorota ZGLOBICKA, where they work on their feature film Thee Designer, co-written and co-directed with Dorota.
Post-talk Lecturer
Pin Hung CHENG (Ryan CHENG)
Lecturer, Festival Programmer and Film critic. Cheng has published extensively online and in various media outlets. He runs a professional film blog and is the author of The Love and Death of Taiwan Cinema(2010), She killed the Era: Revisiting the Japanese New Wave(2017) and Taiwan Cinema in Transition: In Search of True Taiwan Spirit(2019).
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【2022 Weiwuying International Music Festival】Film: The Orchestra by Zbig RYBCZYNSKI
Born in Poland, RYBCZYNSKI is undoubtedly one of the most imaginative directors of the contemporary era. Ever since the 70's he has dug deep into special effects, such as extensive use of green screen shooting. The most special thing in his works is that they often start from real scenarios, then veer into many surreal plots, forming a highly personal worldview. He once mentioned in an interview: "I like the concept of 'contemporary'. My videos will integrate different times. I don't want to directly portray the "current time" because the present and the past are one as a whole."
The Orchestra is his masterpiece completed in 1990. The film is a combination of six fantasy short films. Instead of using music as the background soundtrack, each section makes the image and the music counterpoint each other. For example, in the fifth part, when the newlyweds dance naked in the church, the music is SCHUBERT's Ave Maria. The last part features RAVEL's Boléro mixed with depictions of the rise and fall of the communist system, a vivid and stunning image.
Post-talk
2022/4/10(Sun)18:00-18:30 Lecture Hall
Lecturer｜Pin Hung CHENG (Ryan CHENG)
Artists Introduction
Zbig RYBCZYNSKI is an internationally renowned filmmaker, HD pioneer and an innovator in the film's technical field. He received numerous prestigious awards, including- Oscar, Emmy, 3xMTV's, Cannes Silver Palm, among many others in the USA, Europe, Asia, and South America. He created music videos for Mick Jagger, Yoko Ono, GrandMasterFlash, Simple Minds, and many others. He is an MTV Hall of Fame inductee.
Zbig directed and produced over 50 film titles so far.
Zbig's work was seen on many TV Channels and TV programs in the USA, including Great Performances PBS, Tonight Show NBC, 20/20, Night Flight, MTV, as well as in Europe and Asia: CANAL+, RAI, ZDF, NHK JAPAN, TVP2, TV POLSAT, and more.
In 1985, he launched his film studio – ZBIG VISION – in New York, where he created his most important and innovative HDTV films: Steps (1987), The Fourth Dimension (1988), The Orchestra (1990), Manhattan (1991), and Kafka (1992), all of which were showered with enthusiastic critical acclaim and numerous awards. Zbig is a pioneer of HDTV technology, an innovator and experimentator in the film's technical field. He's the author of several US patents regarding film techniques, including motion control, optics, and compositing.
Between 1985-2013, Zbig worked in the USA, Germany, and Poland, developing innovative methods and systems to produce visual special effects. His major contribution during this period was developing a one-of-a kind film studio, equipped with electronic technology for creating and compositing multi-layer images in real time. It largely eliminates the need for post-production, which fundamentally changes the methodology of the creative process, efficiently reducing overall production costs. 2010-2013, Zbig worked in Wroclaw, Poland, where he designed, build, and directed a unique studio – Audiovisual Technology Center. CeTA is a novel, state of-the-art facility for the production of real-time, multi-layer film images.
His distinguished academic career include teaching at the Columbia University in New York, the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany, Poland's Lodz Film School and visiting professor at Joshibi University of Art and Design in Tokyo, Japan.
Zbig lives and works in the USA with his wife Dorota ZGLOBICKA, where they work on their feature film Thee Designer, co-written and co-directed with Dorota.
Post-talk Lecturer
Pin Hung CHENG (Ryan CHENG)
Lecturer, Festival Programmer and Film critic. Cheng has published extensively online and in various media outlets. He runs a professional film blog and is the author of The Love and Death of Taiwan Cinema(2010), She killed the Era: Revisiting the Japanese New Wave(2017) and Taiwan Cinema in Transition: In Search of True Taiwan Spirit(2019).
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