–I got the idea for this film at the time of Nowa ksiazka, but I did not have the chance to translate it into images early on. I shot the actors in their sets with all the movements, then in the printing phase I visualized the image in 480 lines and reproduced the images delaying, for example, each frame by one line. Thus, the last line ended up being 480 images later in respect to the higher one, so that when the head of a character is rotated, his feet are still in their original position.”

- Zbig Rybczynski, by Jacques Kermabon, Zbigniew Rybczynski, lêautre dimension, in "Bref," May-July 1990

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–Rybczynski uses images like geological layers. He does not play with the image as a background/form, but as a geological mound. For him, each line becomes a system that can be isolated, the way a geologist approaches and analyzes each single stratum. That slippage and the baroque elements are truly the product of a geology rather than a geometry of the image. The horizontal lines are to him what the layers of…