Grandma’s Encyclopaedia France 1963 - Friends of Walerian Borowczyk
Walerian Borowczyk, Filmography, Biography of Walerian Borowczyk, film director,
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Grandma’s Encyclopaedia
France 1963

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Short films
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France 1963, “L’encyclopedie de grand-maman” (original title), 6 min, b&w, no dialogues dir Walerian Borowczyk sc Walerian Borowczyk cam Francis Pronier mus Avenir de Monfred prod Jacques Forgeot pc Les Cinéastes Associés sales Fiends’s of Walerian Borowczyk – Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin

Like both Stan Vanderbeek and Larry Jordan, Borowczyk saw the potential of animating cut outs from Victorian encyclopedias and novels. Like Lenica’s The Labyrinth (completed the same year), Borowczyk takes the idea at the heart of Max Ernst’s graphic novel Une semaine de bonté (A Week of Kindness), and makes it move for both comic and surrealistic effect.