Julian Antonisz


How does it happen

Jak to się dzieje



Genre:Animated movie
Year of production:1970
Technical specs:color; 7 min.


Rights:Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych - WFDiF (Documentary and Feature Film Studios)







A witty lecture for children about the technique and production of a TV show, given by a resolute little girl, based on a program about Teddy Bear. Agnisia, a few-year old lecturer, excitedly explains the technical principles of television and TV production. The girl presents the schedule: the news, a piano concert broadcast, a sports competition, and opera shows. She is especially focused on Teddy Bear, the protagonist of a program for children. She explains the structure of a TV camera: a lens, a body, legs and the image development process. Agnisia compares a ready film tape to a snake that climbs up a television broadcast tower. The Teddy Bear program is unexpectedly interrupted by fragments of the "Strange Adventures of Koziolek Matolek" animated series (1969-1971). The girl apologizes for technical problems. A fairytale for children created by Julian Antonisz (Antoniszczak, Ryszard’s brother), a cult animator, director, composer and inventor, the co-founder of the Cracow branch of Studio Miniatur Filmowych, which transformed into Studio Filmow Animowanych. Antonisz, a student of Kazimierz Urbanski, developed his own technique of non-camera animation, realized without a camera directly on the film tape by scratching and painting. Additionally, it is combined with actors, drawings, cutouts, and chemical reactions on the screen. He developed a recognizable style of pulsating, vibrating images, ostentatiously clumsy, enhanced by unpleasant murmurs and musical quotes. Their comic message is completed by the voiceover’s parodic commentary. The screenplay was based on a short story by Julian Antonisz. Adult viewers will appreciate the parody of an educational film that resembles a TV malfunction on purpose.




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