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Tango (Zbigniew Rybczyński, 1981)

    Tango

    Zbigniew Rybczyński, Poland, 1981, 8’

    A static camera observes a room as it slowly fills with thirty-six characters from different stages of life, looping further through an absurd dance of social disconnection.

    Zbigniew Rybczynski worked eight hours a day for ten months on the Oscar-winning Tango. He brings together a jumble of cut-out photos featuring countless figures of all kinds and ages in a flawlessly synchronised animation. The work was formally highly innovative at the time, establishing Rybczynski as one of the most inventive experimental filmmakers in Europe in the 1980s. 

    Bio Zbigniew Rybczyński

    Polish multimedia artist Zbigniew Rybczyński (1949) has won numerous prestigious industry awards, including the 1983 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Tango. He is renowned for his innovative audiovisual techniques and pioneering experimentation in new image technology.
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    • This film was #12 in the “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025
      voted by Kornél Szilágyi, Emilia Mazik, Mackenzie Fincham, Flavia Mazzarino, Marcin Luczaj, Ivan Ramljak, Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Aleksandra Ławska, Sven Pötting, Carlos Ramos, Marie Ketzscher, Joanna Baranowska, Tony Hill, Simone Bardoni
    animation experimental

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    Cyclepaths

    Anton Cla, Belgium, 2023, 12’

    On the outskirts of the city, the new modern buildings are silent, and the motorway bridge drones. Birds are circling in the sky, and a young man, concealed by his hoodie, is riding his e-scooter along a park path. The only irritating element is the rifle over his shoulder. Cyclepaths conveys a mood of high alert, even though the disaster has, in fact, already happened.

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    Old Child

    Elettra Bisogno, Hazem Alqaddi, Belgium, Palestine, 2019, 16’

    Old Child depicts the fragmented story of Hazem, who had to flee Gaza. Throughout this stream-of-consciousness montage of dreams and reminiscences, he searches for order but also for the beauty he left behind.

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    Swollen Stigma

    Sarah Pucill, United Kingdom, 1998, 21’

    Swollen Stigma is a visual, surrealistic narrative about a woman travelling both literally and psychically through several rooms. Memories, or fantasies, of another woman, fill her imagination. The film proposes lesbian imagery, and its shifting points of view jump between the protagonist, fantasy spaces, and her lover, making an internal world leak into what is external.

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    Downside Up

    Tony Hill, United Kingdom, 1984, 18’

    With a single camera movement, this film explores humankind’s relationship to the ground. The viewpoint continuously changes. Places, objects, people, and events come in and out of focus. These observations gradually speed up and reveal a double-sided ground, flipping like a tossed coin, which then slows again to oscillate around the Earth’s edge.

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