Movies: Walerian Borowczyk

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk in two parts. The first 'panel' follows the morning routine of Leon Boyer who, despite being almost 100 years old, still farms the land, drives a vintage car, and plays with his two dogs. The second panel shows shot...

About the work of the naive painter J. Plaskocinski. A playful tale about the requited love of a shy young man....

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk. Ostensibly a film of a concert given by the round, unassuming Monsieur Kabal and his spiky, terrifying wife, it's actually a cover for their frequent attempts at causing each other extreme physical harm....

An animated advert made by Walerian Borowczyk for a French pasta company....

Borowczyk and Lenica are at their most expressive in this crude paper miniature....

To the sound of trumpets, a collection of pulverised antique bric-a-brac begins to reassemble itself, revealing a stuffed owl, a cornet, a hamper, books, a doll, a plate – and a bomb......

An oddball pair try to find their identity and place in an abstract world....

Ximen Qing, a rich mandarin, deserts his wives to play with the courtesans. One of his young spouses, tired of languishing, consoles herself with a lackey....

Paris is a monstrously inhuman cityscape, in which cars, buses, crowds, and unceasing noise combine to smother any decent and delicate human activity. People and flowers attempt to survive in a city that seems ready to explode from an over-heated mix...

This six-minute short from director Daniel Bird takes a look at the silent cinema pioneers that influenced the work of Walterian Borowczyk. We take a look at various aspects to THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE and then see the influen...

During the French Revolution, a young aristocrat finds an almanac in a book store which contains the prettiest and strangest prostitutes living in Paris....

An advert made by Walerian Borowczyk for a French pasta company. After everybody has left the museum, the paintings can finally come alive and help themselves to some pasta for dinner....

A portrait of Serb erotic surrealist painter Ljubomir "Ljuba" Popović....

Countess Erzsébet Báthory, accompanied by her page, visits the villages and hamlets of her county of Nyitra in Hungary....

A monster, the Beast of Gévaudan, is spreading terror in France, in the Massif Central....

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk...

This short film by Walerian Borowczyk was made in 1979 but is so little known that when it was rediscovered in 2014 it had not been included in any of his filmographies. Of all Borowczyk's films, this is the one that most clearly shows his love of ea...

Julie, my cousin, was sixteen, I was twenty, and this small age difference made her docile to my commands....

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