Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Walerian Borowczyk

Walerian Borowczyk (September 2, 1923 - February 3, 2006) was a Polish film director. He directed 40 films between 1946 and 1988.

Keywords: European, sex and horror, erotic, satirical, surrealist,catastrophe,short animation

Representative works:
Był sobie raz (Once Upon A Time) (1957) and Dom (House) (1958, with Jan Lenica)

Links
Wiki
A review on his animation shorts (with video downloads)

From the 2nd link above:

Walerian Borowczyk

“Matter is the most passive and defenseless essence in the cosmos. Anyone can mould or shape it; it obeys everybody. All attempts at organizing matter are transient and temporary, easy to reverse and to dissolve.” —Bruno Schulz

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Rose petals are put to good use in female masturbatory fantasies. Female genitalia is so often compared to rose petals (e.g. Kane�s �Rosebud�) Here Borowczyk offers a literal on-screen deflowering!

Borowczyk Walerian-Scherzo Infernal (1984)

2 comments:

Jade said...

Argh!!!! WHAT happened to the old nice pink template!!!!!!!!! For a moment i thought i typed in the wrong addr..although this is green but...PROTESTS!!!!!!!!

Z said...

ok, you win...