Turn right, go straight, turn left. A collage of photos of road signs, immortalized on Polaroid in the United States in the early 1990s. A game of ludo with photos and an example of unpretentious visual archeology. Where did the arrows lead? Could these places still exist?
He was born in 1951 in Warsaw. He was an art critic and historian with a special passion for animated film. He was previously the editor in chief of Animafilm quarterly and was the program director of the “Animator” International Animated Film Festival. Mr. Giżycki was a lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. As a director, he made documentaries (frequently about artists) as well as animated films.
1998 Wyspa Jana Lenicy (TV, doc., short)
1998 Gus Van Sant. Buntownik okiełznany (TV, co-dir., doc., short)
2005 Podróże Daniela Szczechury (TV, doc., short)
2007 Olney Street (short, anim.)
2014 Magiczne życie. Opowieść o American Magic-Lantern Theater / A Magic-Lantern Life: The Story of the American Magic-Lantern Theater (co-dir., doc.)