Tango

Poland, 1983 Directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński Experimental short movie by Zbigniew Rybczyński, winner of the Academy Award for the Best Short Animated Film in 1983. Thirtysix characters from different stages of life interact in one room, moving in loops, observed by a static camera. (Source: Zbig Vision) The author says: I had to draw and paint about cellmattes, and make several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer. It took a full seven months, sixteen hours per day, to make the piece. The miracle is that the negative got through the process with only minor damage, and I made less than one hundred mathematical