Marcin Giżycki

Known for DirectingBorn 1951-09-26Died 2022-10-21Warsaw, Poland

Marcin Giżycki was a Polish film and art historian, critic, and filmmaker. He was a professor at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw (since 2015), a Senior Lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design (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.Read more