Walerian Borowczyk Movies

A short news reel documentary about poster art.

To the sound of trumpets, a collection of pulverised antique bric-a-brac begins to reassemble itself, revealing a stuffed owl, a cornet, a hamper,...

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk. Ostensibly a film of a concert given by the round, unassuming Monsieur Kabal and his spiky, terrifying wife, it's...

An oddball pair try to find their identity and place in an abstract world.

Lucrezia Borgia, accompanied by her husband Giovanni Sforza visits his father, Pope Alexander VI, and his brother, Cardinal Cesare Borgia. The...

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk

An animated film made by Walerian Borowczyk for W.D. & H.O. Wills. A very pompous cigar smoker reminisces about the good old days when the lower...

An animated advert made by Walerian Borowczyk for a French pasta company.

The inhabitants of our region demand the beatification of Thérèse Fl., the pious young girl shamefully raped by a vagabond.

Two bored dwarves fight over a cushion.

A monster, the Beast of Gévaudan, is spreading terror in France, in the Massif Central.

Borowczyk and Lenica are at their most expressive in this crude paper miniature.

Paris is a monstrously inhuman cityscape, in which cars, buses, crowds, and unceasing noise combine to smother any decent and delicate human...

From Boccaccio's "La précaution inutile". Jean, a rich old merchant, is blessed with a young and beautiful wife. Although Bianca is absolutely...

An advert made by Walerian Borowczyk for a French pasta company. After everybody has left the museum, the paintings can finally come alive and help...

This six-minute short from director Daniel Bird takes a look at the silent cinema pioneers that influenced the work of Walterian Borowczyk. We take a...

Julie, my cousin, was sixteen, I was twenty, and this small age difference made her docile to my commands.

This short film by Walerian Borowczyk was made in 1979 but is so little known that when it was rediscovered in 2014 it had not been included in any...