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Jan Lenica (4 January 1928, Poznań, Poland – 5 October 2001, Berlin) was a Polish graphic designer and cartoonist.
A graduate of the Architecture Department of Warsaw Polytechnic, Lenica became a poster illustrator and a collaborator on the early animation films of Walerian Borowczyk. From 1963 – 1986 he lived and worked in France, while from 1987 he lived and worked in Berlin. He was a professor of graphic, poster, animated cartoon for many years at German high schools and the first professor of the animation class at the University of Kassel, Germany, in 1979. He used cut-out stop motion animation in his numerous films, which included two features: Adam 2 (1968) and Ubu et la grande gidouille (1976, but released in France only in 1979).
He died on 5 October 2001 in Berlin, Germany.
Most Popular Jan Lenica Trailers
Total trailers found: 16
21 April 1958
An experimental short film.
01 January 1957
Borowczyk and Lenica are at their most expressive in this crude paper miniature.
23 October 1970
Semi-autobiographical movie about a life of a man under the number "44". He experiences bureaucracy, abusive step-parents, and oppression from the government and society.
01 February 1964
Based on Eugene Ionesco’s play, this is an animated film warning that by conforming to patterns and living en masse, people will become rhinoceroses.
31 December 1963
A self-consciously Kafkaesque tale of a winged lonely man literally devoured by totalitarian rule.
02 January 1965
A writer is persecuted by an enormous and abusive letter 'A'.
01 January 1959
Monsieur Tête, an ordinary bureaucrat, rebels against the world and the ideas of the people around him.
01 January 2001
"Wyspa R.O" is a highly personal story about freedom, fate and love as well as Lenica's personal creative testament.
02 May 1958
About the work of the naive painter J. Plaskocinski. A playful tale about the requited love of a shy young man.
01 January 1979
An extraordinary cut-out-and-move adaptation of all three of Jarry's Ubu plays. The characters are caricatured almost to abstraction- in the opening scene Ma Ubu is even depicted as a bug, Pa Ubu has a massive jaw and a microcephalic brain case.
01 January 1975
This film shows the Polish master animator Jan Lenica working on his film Landscape, and explores the relationship of the artist between the real world and his fantasy visions.
01 June 1961
In the modern village of the future, everything is mechanized, but the dreams of the village musician remain the same.
01 January 1957
A short film advertising the newspaper Sztandar Młodych (The Banner of Youth), noteworthy for its abstract elements painted directly onto film stock.
25 August 1957
An oddball pair try to find their identity and place in an abstract world.
11 October 1972
Parody of fictional heroes such as Fantomas and Zorro, told through still photographs.
01 January 1965
Images of women in Art Nouveau and other art movements at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
