We invite you to the long-awaited interview with Mariusz Wilczyński, the creator of the film "Kill it and leave this town", which premiered at the inauguration of the 27th Etiuda & Anima International Film Festival. The interview was conducted by Kamila Kołacz.
A self-taught
artist who has been creating animated auteur cinema for over twenty years.
Retrospectives of
his films were held, among others, at MoMA in New York, National Museum of
Brasília, Tokyo International Forum and The National Museum in Warsaw.
Mariusz Wilczyński Picture: Janusz Marynowski
His animations
were shown at the National Gallery in London and at Berlinale.
He also realises
improvised live animation performances which he co-creates with symphony
orchestras from Hong Kong, Paris, Tokyo, Geneva, Lviv and Warsaw.
In 2007, the New York Times called
him “one of the most important contemporary creators of artistic animation.”
For the last 14
years, he has been working on “Kill It and Leave This Town.”
He is a professor
of animation at the Film School in Łódź.