Piotr Kamler

Chronopolis made in 1982 by Piotr Kamler is a fabulous city lost in space where strange pharaoh-like immortals kill the monotony of their deathless state by fabricating time, represented by enigmatic, morphing white balls. (YouTube)

Cartoon illustrating the unceasing search for self and represents another reality. (BFI)

Geometric shapes moving with stop-motion animation.

A cube of stacked papers slowly comes apart.

Visually, this one brings to mind Edward Gorey as well as shadow puppet plays. The opening suggests that Kamler is exploring the nature of time here, and indeed it's difficult to imagine anyone better suited to do so than a stop-motion animator. Note the interesting recursive scalar relationship wherein the men playing chess are themselves inside of a rook on a larger chessboard. Once again, Kamler works with a genius of electronic music from GRM - this time, composer Francois Bayle. (ubu)

[A] white ball encountering a hole in the ground. (imdb)

An imaginary planet, an abstract universe in continual motion, where minute organisms. half flea half amoeba, the 'actuphages', live and evolve peacefully. (letterboxd)

Visual impressions on the theme of The Winter by Vivaldi: blizzards, dancing moons, pulses with ice crystals sparkling silver, petrified wood.... (mubi)

A 9-minute piece concerning the travails of "the spiderelephant"

Surrealistic animation about an ever-working creature meeting something that distracts it from its duties.

This is one of Piotr Kamler's first abstract, animated short films. It takes place in two parts.

Etude 65 is a study based on a precedent Kamler’s short using the second part Continu-discontinu with a new music composed by the great Beatriz Ferreyra.

Infinite star space, where luminous forms evolve; dots swarm in webs of insubstantial lines. Music by Francois Bayle.