[spectre] Zbig Rybczynski DVD collection now available!

[Joel S. Bachar]

The complete Zbig Rybczynski DVD collection now available from the 
Blackchair DVD Collection!

For the very first time selected films and videos by internationally 
acclaimed 
experimental video and filmmaker, are available on DVD. 

Zbig Rybczynski (pronounced Rib-CHIN-ski) was born in Poland in 1949 
and has been working as a film director in Europe and the United 
States since the early 1970s. His work has received many prestigious 
industry awards in the United States, Japan and Europe. The awards 
include an Academy Award® in 1983 for "Tango", an Emmy® in Special 
Effects in 1990 for "The Orchestra", the Prix Italia, the Golden Gate 
Award in San Francisco and awards at the Electronic Cinema Festival 
Tokyo/Montreaux. Numerous other awards include MTV, American Video 
Awards, Monitor Awards and the Billboard Music Video Awards. Zbig also 
has a distinguished academic career - he was a teacher at the Film 
School in Lodz, Poland (cinematography), at Columbia University, NY 
(electronic filmmaking) and a professor of experimental film at the 
Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany. He currently lives in Los 
Angeles, where he works for the Ultimatte Corporation, world’s 
recognized leader in blue/green screen compositing technology for film 
and TV, as a member of their R&D team and runs his own company - Zbig 
Vision Ltd.

The complete Zbig Rybczynski DVD collection features:

Part I: MEDIA – short film and video collection
Total Running Time: 72 minutes
SRP: $28.95
To order:
http://www.microcinema.com/programResult.php?program_id=195

Includes:
1.Kwadrat (Square)
Poland, 1972, 35mm, Color, 00:03:36
2.Plamuz 
Poland, 1973, 35mm, Color, 00:09:38
3. Nowa Ksiazka (New Book) 
Poland, Color, 00:10:25
4.Zupa (Soup) 
Poland, 1974, 35mm, Color, 00:08:22
5.Oj! Nie moge sie zatrzymac! (Oh! I can't stop!)  
Poland, 1976, 35mm, BW, 00:10:07
6.Swieto (Holiday)  
Poland, 1975, 35MM, Color, 00:10:27
7.Weg zum Nachbarn (The way to your Neighbor)  
Poland, 1976, 35mm, BW, 00:02:30
8.Mein Fenster (My Window) 
Poland, 1979, 35mm, Color, 00:02:26
9.Media  
Poland, 1980, 35mm, Color, 00:01:35
10. Tango  
Poland,  1980, 35mm, Color, 00:08:10


Part II: STEPS
(based on the "Odessa Steps" sequence of 
Sergei Eisenstein's classic "Battleship Potemkin") 
"Best Video Program" 
Rio International Film Festival 1987 

"Best Director" 
Entertainment Specials, ITS Monitor Awards 1987 

It also includes: 
THE FOURTH DIMENSION 
Zbig's favored

Total Running Time: 57 minutes
SRP: $28.95
To order:
http://www.microcinema.com/programResult.php?program_id=%20207

Part III: THE ORCHESTRA

THE ORCHESTRA 
(it also includes "Stairway to Lenin") 

"EMMY®" 
- "Outstanding Achievement in Special Effects" 1990 
"Prix Italia" 1990 
"Grand Prix" 
International Electronic Cinema Festival, Tokyo-Montreux 1990 
"Grand Prix" 
A.V.A. Festival in Tokyo 1991 
"Hi Vision Award" Tokyo 1990 

It also includes: 
ZBIG CHEF D'ORCHESTRE (Making of The Orchestra) 
directed by Pierre Oscar Levy - a program produced for Canal+ of 
France.

Total Running Time: 82 minutes
SRP: $28.95
To order:
http://www.microcinema.com/programResult.php?program_id=%20208

For more details/wholesale discounts please contact:
orders at microcinema.com
www.microcinema.com