House
Poland 1958

Poland 1958, “Dom” (original title), 11 min, colour & b&w, no dialogues dir Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica sc Walerian Borowczyk, Jan Lenica cam Antoni Nurzyński ed Krystyna Rutkowska mus Włodzimierz Kotoński sound Halina Paszkowska cast Ligia Borowczyk prod Romuald Hajnberg pc Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych, Zespół Filmowy „Kadr” sales Studio Filmowe „Kadr” source Filmoteka Narodowa aw Brussels IFF 1958 – Grand Prix

A young woman inside a house succumbs to a succession of day dreams, fantasies and nightmares. Arguably Borowczyk and Lenica’s masterpiece, House served as Borowczyk and Lenica’s ticket to the West. The result is a veritable compendium of animation techniques, which both look back at the European avant-garde of the 1920s (Cocteau, Richter, Ray, Ernst, Calder, Duchamp etc.) while paving the way for the likes of latter day Czech surrealist Jan Švankmajer. It also features a remarkable electro-acoustic soundtrack by Włodzimierz Kotoński.