To the rhythm of a beating heart and an orchestra's accompaniment, with no voiceover, we could see black and white images, they’re full of marks. They show sunrises and sunsets. Between them, we could see images showing the passing of human life. To the rhythm of a beating heart and an orchestra's accompaniment, with no voiceover, we could see black and white images, they’re full of marks. They show sunrises and sunsets. Between them, we could see images showing the passing of human life. From a trusting, happy face of a child to sunken cheeks and dull eyes of an old man. The eye close-ups allude to the camera’s lens. An animated allegory of human life created by Julian Antonisz (Antoniszczak), a 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. 'The Sun' is a non-camera animation realized in the woodcut technique, pressed directly to the film tape.
