Renaissance was one of the remarkable shorts which made Borowczyk the darling of he heavy weight critics in the sixties. They were hard pressed to justify this stand when he turned into a career soft porn director but that is another story.
This one is a black and white stop motion one reeler in which the objects in a room reconstitute themselves after what we realise is an explosion. Dolls, furniture and assorted objects. It is not hard to make out an argument for this as the point of departure for the work of Jan Svankmajer and the Brothers Quay. The scratch and rustle sound track is another clue.
The technique is impeccable and the amount of work involved (shooting backwards ?) must have been extraordinary.
This one is a black and white stop motion one reeler in which the objects in a room reconstitute themselves after what we realise is an explosion. Dolls, furniture and assorted objects. It is not hard to make out an argument for this as the point of departure for the work of Jan Svankmajer and the Brothers Quay. The scratch and rustle sound track is another clue.
The technique is impeccable and the amount of work involved (shooting backwards ?) must have been extraordinary.