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Zbigniew Rybczyński Zbigniew Rybczyński ( ; born 27 January 1949 ) is a Polish filmmaker , director , cinematographer , screenwriter , creator of experimental animated films , and multimedia artist who has won numerous prestigious industry awards both in the United States and internationally including the 1982 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Tango . He has taught cinematography and digital cinematography , and has worked as a researcher of blue and greenscreen compositing technology at Ultimatte Corporation . He is renowned for his innovative audiovisual techniques and for his pioneering experimentation in the field of new image technology . In March 2009 , Rybczyński returned to Poland , taking up residence in Wrocław , where he has set up the Center for Audiovisual Technologies ( CeTA ) at the site of the citys historic Feature Film Studio . The center , which officially opened in January 2013 , includes a state-of-the-art studio designed by Rybczyński for the production of multi-layer film images , and an institute for research into images and visual technologies . After Rybczyński discovered and published huge corruption in CeTA , they fired him and subsequently he declared the renunciation of his Polish citizenship . Early life and career . Rybczyński was born in Łódź , Poland . He grew up in Warsaw , where he attended a secondary-level art school and then worked briefly at the |Studio Miniatur Filmowych ( 1968-1969 ) . He studied cinematography at the Łódź Film School ( 1969-1973 ) ; his thesis films were Take Five and Plamuz . During his studies , he became a founding member of the Film Form Workshop ( Warsztat Formy Filmowej ) , the most important Polish neo avant-garde group . He also honed his film-making skills working as a cinematographer for young directors like Andrzej Barański , Piotr Andrejew , Wojciech Wiszniewski , and Filip Bajon on shorts , documentaries and educational films , and on Grzegorz Królikiewiczs feature-length The Dancing Hawk ( Tańczący Jastrząb ) . His films from the period include : The Talk ( Rozmowa , TV ) and Gropingly ( Po Omacku ) by Andrejew , Videocassette ( Wideokaseta ) by Bajon , and Wanda Gościmińska . Włókniarka by Wiszniewski . From 1973 to 1980 , Rybczyński made his own films at the Se-Ma-For Studio in Łódź . He established the Dr . Stanzl special effects studio in Vienna for the Austrian public TV station ORF , and worked there from 1977 to 1980 . During the political unrest in Poland in 1980 , he was the head of the founders committee of the Se-Ma-For studio branch of Solidarity . Emigration to the United States . In 1982 , during the martial law period , he managed to arrange a job contract that enabled him to leave Poland for Vienna , where he applied for political asylum . The following year , he and his family emigrated to the US , where they lived in Los Angeles and then New York . The first works he made in the US were the short experimental videos The Day Before and The Discreet Charm of the Diplomacy , both made in 1984 on a commission from NBCs The New Show . In 1985 , he launched his own studio – ZBIG VISION – in New York , which he subsequently outfitted with the latest video , computer and HDTV technology . It was in this studio that he made his most important American films , including Steps ( 1987 ) , The Fourth Dimension ( 1988 ) , The Orchestra ( 1990 ) , Manhattan ( 1991 ) , and Kafka ( 1992 ) , which were showered with enthusiastic critical acclaim and numerous awards . In the , US he also made short music-based pieces that added to his popularity and acclaim . Between 1984 and 1989 , he made more than 30 music videos for such artists as Mick Jagger , Yoko Ono , Lou Reed , Simple Minds , Cameo , Art of Noise , Chuck Mangione , Pet Shop Boys , Lady Pank , The Alan Parsons Project , Supertramp , and Rush . One of them – Imagine ( 1986 ) , made for John Lennons composition – was the first music video ever made using high-definition technology . In 1994 , Rybczyński moved to Germany , where he co-founded the Centrum Für Neue Bildgestaltung , an experimental film center in Berlin , and later worked in Cologne . He returned to Los Angeles in 2001 , where he worked for the Ultimatte Corporation and continued his research in the area where art , science , and digital technology intersect working out new standards for moving images . Among the results of Rybczyńskis long-term research and experimentation are his inventions in the field of electronic-image technology , for which he holds several US patents , and which are widely used in the film and TV industries . In March 2009 , Rybczyński returned to Poland , taking up residence in Wrocław , where he set up the Center for Audiovisual Technologies ( CeTa ) at the site of the citys historic Feature Film Studio . The center , which officially opened in January 2013 , includes a state-of-the-art studio designed by Rybczyński for the production of multi-layer film images , and an institute for research into images and visual technologies . Rybczyński was a professor at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne ( 1998-2001 ) , and has also taught at many other art and film schools , including the National Film School in Łódź , Columbia University in New York , and Yoshiba University of Art and Design in Tokyo . Awards . Rybczyński has won numerous prestigious awards at international film festivals including Oberhausen ( 1981 ) , Tampere ( 1982 ) , Kraków ( 1981 ) , and the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival ( 1993 ) . He won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1983 for his film Tango was the first-ever Oscar awarded to a Polish artist . ( The awards ceremony was notable for Rybczyński , as after he left the ceremony to step outside for a smoke , he was barred entry by a security guard even though he was holding an Oscar statuette . A scuffle ensued , and Rybczyński was arrested . His summation of the event was that success and failure are quite intertwined. ) He has also received three MTV Video Music Awards , three American Video Awards , three Monitor Awards ( 1984-1987 ) , an MTV Video Vanguard Award for being visionary in the field of music video ( 1985–86 ) , a Billboard Music Video Award ( 1986 ) , a Silver Lion at the Cannes Advertising Film Festival ( 1987 ) , an Emmy Award ( 1990 ) , a Prix Italia ( 1990 ) , and the Grand Prize at the International Electronic Cinema Festival , Tokyo-Montreux ( 1990 and 1992 ) . In 2010 , he received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the development of international cinematic art at the Batumi International Art-House Film Festival ( BIAFF ) in Georgia . In 1999 , Rybczyński was honored with a star in the Łódź Walk of Fame . In 2008 , the Łódź Film School awarded him an honorary doctorate for outstanding artistic skill and innovation in the cinematic arts and for the creative use of the potentials of art , technology and science . In the same year , Polands Minister of Culture and National Heritage awarded him the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis for Cultural Achievements , and he also received the prestigious Katarzyna Kobro Award for artistic achievement . Rybczyńskis first solo exhibition – A Treatise on the Visual Image , shown in 2009 at Art Stations in Poznań , the WRO Art Center in Wrocław , and the Center of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Toruń – focused attention on his unique artistic and scientific achievements , presenting his work in the context not only of film , but of contemporary fine arts . Rybczyński was also active in an avant-garde group Warsztat Formy Filmowej , and had cooperated with Se-Ma-For Studios in Łódź , where he authored a series of short films , including : Plamuz ( 1973 ) , Zupa ( 1974 ) , Nowa książka ( 1975 ) , and Tango ( 1981 ) . Tango was his big success , winning the Oscar Award for Best Animated Short in 1983 . After winning the Academy Award , Rybczyński moved to New York and embarked on a career directing music videos in the early years of MTV . Rybczyński created dozens of music videos for artists including Art of Noise , Mick Jagger , Simple Minds , Pet Shop Boys , Chuck Mangione , The Alan Parsons Project , Yoko Ono , Lou Reed , Supertramp , Rush , Propaganda , and Lady Pank . His clip for John Lennons Imagine was created as a showpiece for HDTV technology . Rybczyński won several MTV Awards , including the coveted Video Vanguard Award for his radical contributions to the form . Rybczyński is a recognized pioneer in HDTV technology . In 1990 , he produced the HDTV program The Orchestra for the Japanese market . This suite of classical music videos won many awards ( including the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects ) . The program , created in HDTV , was broadcast in standard resolution by PBS as part of their Great Performances series in the US , as HDTV was not widely available to viewers until a decade later . Segments of this program are regularly featured on the Classic Arts Showcase channel in the U.S . Frustrated with the quality of available chroma key technology — the process of removing a specific color frequency from film and video that had become essential to his work — Rybczyński began to author his own chromakey software in the 1990s . This led to an R&D position with the Los Angeles Ultimatte Corporation , longtime industry leaders in chromakey technology . Filmography . Later works . 1983 . - Angst - Austrian serial killer film starring Erwin Leder 1984 . - Sign of the Times - music video for Grandmaster Flash from They Said It Couldnt Be Done , 4:25 , Elektra/Asylum Records - The Real End - music video for Rickie Lee Jones from The Magazine , 4:47 , Warner Bros . - All That I Wanted - music video for Belfegore from their eponymous album , 4:15 , Elektra Records - Diana D - music video for Chuck Mangione , 4 min , CBS Records - Close ( To the Edit ) - music video for Art of Noise , 4:30 , Island Records - The Discreet Charm of the Diplomacy - experimental short video , 2:56 , The New Show NBC TV - The Day Before - experimental short video , 1:38 , The New Show NBC TV 1985 . - Lose Your Love - music video for Blancmange , 3:54 , Warner Bros . - Alive and Kicking - music video for Simple Minds , 5:25 , A&M Records - Ultimo Ballo - music video for Angel and Maimone , 4:50 , Virgin Records - Midnight Mover - music video for Accept , 3:10 , Epic Records - Minus Zero - music video for Lady Pank , 3:55 , MCA Records - She Went Pop - music video for I Am Siam , 4:10 , Columbia Records - Hot Shot - music video for Jimmy Cliff , 3:55 , CBS Records - P-Machinery - music video for Propaganda , 3:45 , Island Records - Who Do You Love - music video for Bernard Wright , 4:15 , Capitol Records 1986 . - Imagine - experimental HDTV film , 4:20 , music by John Lennon , Rebo/Rybczynski Productions - Candy - HDTV music video for Cameo , 4:20 , Polygram Records , Rebo Productions - The Original Wrapper - music video for Lou Reed , 4:40 , RCA Records - I Cant Think About Dancing - music video for Missing Persons , 4 min , Capitol Records - Sex Machine - music video for Fat Boys , 4 min , Tin Pan Apple/Sutra Records - All the Things She Said - music video for Simple Minds , 4:15 , Virgin Records - Hell in Paradise - music video for Yoko Ono , 3:30 , OnoVideo/Polygram Records - Stereotomy - music video for The Alan Parsons Project , 4:10 , Arista Records - OPPORTUNITIES - music video for Pet Shop Boys , 3:40 , EMI Records 1987 . - Lets Work - HDTV music video for Mick Jagger , 4:05 , CBS Records - Why Should I Cry ? - HDTV music video for Nona Hendryx , 4 min , EMI Records , Rebo Productions - Keep Your Eye On Me - HDTV music video for Herb Alpert , 5:15 , A&M RECORDS , Rebo Productions - Steps - experimental video/35mm film , 26 min , Zbig Vision , KCTA-TV ( PBS ) , Channel Four - Im Beggin You - music video for Supertramp , 4 min , A&M Records - Time Stand Still - music video for Rush , 3:30 , Polygram Records - Something Real - music video for Mr . Mister , 4:10 , BMG Music - Dragnet 1987 - music video for Art of Noise , 3 min , Chrysalis Records 1988 . - Fluff - opening sequence video , 1:47 , HDTV , RAI - The Duel - a tribute to G.Melies , 4:08 , HDTV , Telegraph - Blue Like You - HDTV music video for Étienne Daho , 3:41 , Virgin Records - The Fourth Dimension - experimental 35 mm film , 27 min , Zbig Vision , Rai 3 , Canal+ , and KTCA-TV ( PBS ) 1989 . - Capriccio no.24 - experimental HDTV film , 6:18 , TVEs The Art of Video - You Better Dance - HDTV music video for The Jets , 3:34 , MCA Records - Cowbell - HDTV music video for Takeshi Itoh , 4 min , CBS Records - GMF Groupe - promo , 2:03 , HDTV , Zbig Vision and Ex Nihilo 1990 . - The Orchestra - HDTV long film , 57:11 , Zbig Vision and Ex Nihilo , coproduced by NHK , Canal+ , and PBS Great Performances . - Video Hits One - 17 network IDs for VH1 1991 . - Manhattan - experimental HDTV film , 28 min , Zbig Vision and NHK Enterprises USA , Inc . - Washington - experimental HDTV film , 28 min , Zbig Vision and NHK Enterprises USA , Inc . 1992 . - Kafka - HDTV long film , 52:16 , Télémax , Les Editions Audiovisuelles - Curtains - opening sequence for Tonight Show , 0:34 , HDTV , NBC TV 2011 . - The Vision , 2011 , co-director Dorota Zgłobicka , Zbig Vision , Polska