Tamara Sorbian-Kasprzycka, 1952-2020. In Memoriam
Marcin Giżycki
mgizycki@hotmail.comPolish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7525-0205
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This is a tribute to Tamara Sorbian-Kasprzycka, a well-known Polish animator who died in January 2020. She studied psychology and art history in Poznań, and attended Mirosław Kijowicz’s course in animation at the Film School in Lodz. She made a number of visually striking films, mostly inspired by well-known painters. She was working on a feature film about the last day of life of Bruno Schulz. (Non-reviewed material).
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Tamara Sorbian-Kasprzycka, animator, video artReferences
Giżycki, M. (1981). Jak powstał znak „Solidarności” (rozmowa z gdańskimi plastykami – Krystyną i Jerzym Janiszewskimi oraz Anną i Tadeuszem Strzelczykami). Literatura, (2), s. 5.
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Marcin Giżyckimgizycki@hotmail.com
Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7525-0205
Film and art historian, critic, filmmaker. Professor at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw (Poland). Senior Lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence (USA). Artistic Director of “Animator” – International Animated Film Festival in Poznań (Poland). Former editor-in-chief of Animafilm – the ASIFA quarterly. He has published eight books and around 400 articles on film and art in Polish and foreign publications. He has also made a number of documentary, live action, experimental, and animated films in Poland and the USA. In 2016 he received the Award for the Outstanding Contribution to Animation Studies at “Animafest”, the World Festival of Animated Film in Zagreb (Croatia).
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