Marcin Giżycki Explained

Marcin Giżycki
Birth Date:26 September 1951
Birth Place:Warsaw, Poland
Death Place:Warsaw, Poland
Nationality:Polish

Marcin Giżycki (26 September 1951 – 21 October 2022) was a Polish film and art historian, critic, and filmmaker.[1] [2] He was a professor at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology[3] in Warsaw (since 2015), a Senior Lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design[4] (since 1988), and an Artistic Director of the ANIMATOR (festival) International Animated Film Festival Animator in Poznań, Poland (since 2007). He has authored eight books, co-edited two others, contributed photographs to four books by Agnieszka Taborska, and published around 400 articles on film and art in Polish and foreign publications. In 2016, he received the Award for the Outstanding Contribution to Animation Studies at Animafest, the World Festival of Animated Film in Zagreb, Croatia.[5]

He died on 21 October 2022.[6]

Education and professional experience

Giżycki received his MA and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Warsaw in 1976 and 1995 respectively. He received his postdoctoral degree in film studies from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, in 2006. He worked at the National Museum, Warsaw, in 1974–1975, was an editor-in-chief of the ASIFA quarterly Animafilm (1979–1981), was part of the editorial staff at Projekt in Warsaw (1979–1983) and an art critic for Literatura (1978–1981). In 1983 he taught at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College in Farnham, England (formerly known as West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham). He was vice-president of the College of the Visual Arts and New Media in Warsaw, Poland (2002–2003). In 2012–2015 he was a professor at the Wyższa Szkoła Techniczna w Katowicach (Katowice School of Technology), Katowice, Poland.

Associations

Polish Art Historians' Association, Polish Filmmakers' Association, International Association of Art Critics(AICA), International Film Critics Association (FIPRESCI),[7] International Animated Film Association (ASIFA)

Filmography (experimental / animations)

Filmography (documentaries)

Awards at film festivals (selection)

Books published (selection)

Photography in publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Marcin Gizycki. Vimeo.
  2. Web site: Marcin Gizycki. IMDb.
  3. Web site: Marcin Giżycki | Polish Japanese Academy of Information Technology - Academia.edu. pja.academia.edu.
  4. Web site: Marcin Gizycki | Faculty | Theory + History of Art + Design | RISD. www.risd.edu.
  5. Web site: animafest.hr. animafest.hr.
  6. http://www.psb.pan.krakow.pl/index.php/pl/10-wydarzenia/105-30-maja-2020-roku-zmarl-stanislaw-grodziski-18
  7. Web site: Marcin Gizycki.
  8. Web site: POLISH SHORTS: Marcin Giżycki -. Polish Shorts.

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