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Saturday, October 24 \u2014 Saturday, November 21, 2026
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Series | \u201cVenus on the Half-Shell,\u201d THE BEAST, \u201cJoachim\u2019s Dictionary,\u201d THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE, \u201cA Private Collection,\u201d IMMORAL TALES, \u201cGavotte,\u201d LULU, \u201cThe Greatest Love of All Time,\u201d THE MARGIN, \u201cRosalie,\u201d BLANCHE and THE STORY OF SIN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Provocative, surreal and defiantly transgressive, Walerian Borowczyk\u2019s cinema boldly explores the unspoken aspects of existence and sensuality. As disturbing as it is humorous, the visionary\u2019s oeuvre dares to transform forbidden desires and moral musings into fantastical dreamscapes that satirize the complexities of the human condition. From his beautifully unsettling early animations and experimental short films to his subversive fever dreams of features, the American Cinematheque, in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York, is proud to present a collection of landmark 20th century European cinema by the \u201cengineer of ecstasy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Venus on the Half-Shell \/ The Beast<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, October 24 at 10:00 PM
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Walerian Borowczyk \/ Venus on the Half-Shell<\/em> \/ 1975 \/ 5min \/ DCP \/ Tamasa Distribution \/ France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featuring Bona Tibertelli De Pisis\u2019s excellent erotic graphic works \u2013 wife of writer Andr\u00e9 Pieyre de Mandiargues while working in her atelier, together with fragments of her graphic works inspired by one of Remy de Gourmont\u2019s writings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Restored in 4K in 2026 by Friends of Walerian Borowczyk at Fixafilm laboratory, from a 35mm internegative and the original 35mm negative. Funding provided by Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walerian Borowczyk \/ The Beast<\/em> \/ 1975 \/ 108min \/ AGFA \/ DCP \/ France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walerian Borowczyk\u2019s most notorious film wildly re-works Beauty and the Beast<\/em> into an adult fairy tale that parodies pornographic tropes and assaults all notions of \u201cgood taste.\u201d Bestial dreams interrupt the plans of a French aristocrat to marry off Mathurin, his deformed son, to Lucy, a horny American heiress. Yet Mathurin seems more interested in his horses than in his bride-to-be. When Lucy discovers the story of an 18th-century ancestor copulating with the titular beast, it sparks to life one of the most outrageous dream sequences in cinema history. A huge hit in France that was extensively censored and banned all over the world, The Beast <\/em>(aka La B\u00eate<\/em>) broke new ground in sexual explicitness and remains a truly startling experience today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Joachim’s Dictionary \/ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Friday, October 30 at 10:00 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walerian Borowczyk \/ Joachim\u2019s Dictionary \/ 1965 \/ 9min \/ DCP \/ France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on a sparse, singular design by Laurence Demaria (Ligia Borowczyk), Joachim defines twenty six words each beginning with a different letter from the alphabet. As with \u201cGrandma\u2019s Encyclopedia,\u201d Borowczyk offers a succession of visual definitions which suggest a doomed attempt at mastering the absurdities of the world. Frequently hilarious, Joachim\u2019s Dictionary is Borowczyk at his most anarchic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walerian Borowczyk \/ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne \/ 1981 \/ 92min \/ DCP \/ AGFA \/ France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IIt\u2019s the engagement party for brilliant young Dr. Henry Jekyll (Udo Kier, Suspiria<\/em>) and his fianc\u00e9e, the beautiful Fanny Osbourne (Marina Pierro). The party is attended by various pillars of Victorian society, including Patrick Magee (A Clockwork Orange<\/em>) in one of his final roles. When people are found assaulted and murdered on the manor grounds, it becomes clear that a maniac is disrupting the festivities. But who is he? And why does Jekyll keep sneaking off to his laboratory? This visually stunning adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s famous story by surrealist icon Walerian Borowczyk (The Beast<\/em>) is crammed with imaginative and perverse touches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A Private Collection \/ Immoral Tales<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Saturday, November 7 at 9:30 PM
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Walerian Borowczyk \/ A Private Collection<\/em> \/ 1973 \/ 14min \/ Tamasa Distribution \/ France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A witty and eye-opening tour through Borowczyk\u2019s own collection of vintage erotica. \u201cA Private Collection\u201d marks the turning-point between Borowczyk\u2019s career as a highly-regarded animator and surrealist filmmaker, and his subsequent career in the sexploitation field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Restored in 4K in 2026 by Friends of Walerian Borowczyk at Fixafilm laboratory, from a 35mm internegative and the original 35mm negative. Funding provided by Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walerian Borowczyk \/ Immoral Tales<\/em> \/ 1974 \/ 126min \/ AGFA \/ France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first explicitly erotic feature from the notorious director of The Beast, Immoral Tales <\/em>presents a veritable cavalcade of depravity in four stories. Structured in reverse chronological order as if to suggest that the same issues recur constantly throughout human civilization, whether involving notorious historical figures like Lucrezia Borgia and Erzs\u00e9bet B\u00e1thory or present-day teenagers, Immoral Tales<\/em> would transform Walerian Borowczyk\u2019s image from brilliant but obscure avant-garde artist to one of Europe\u2019s most confrontational filmmakers when it came to trampling on sexual taboos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Gavotte \/ Lulu<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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Walerian Borowczyk \/ Gavotte <\/em>\/ 1967 \/ 12min \/ DCP \/ Friends of Walerian Borowczyk \/ France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The short takes its title and dramatic cues from a baroque gavotte<\/em> by Jean-Philippe Rameau, which plays on a harpsichord off-camera. Set within a painterly, period living room, the film unfolds like a bizarre and humorous game of musical chairs. It follows two bored dwarves who engage in a petty, escalating fight over a cushion and a place in an armchair. Through its manic, stationary shots and burlesque gags, the short makes a delightful, sadomasochistic mockery of aristocratic decorum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walerian Borowczyk \/ Lulu<\/em> \/ 1980 \/ 95min \/ DCP \/ Studio TF1 \/ France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story of a sexually-enticing young dancer who rises in society through her relationships with wealthy men, but later falls into poverty and prostitution, culminating in an encounter with Jack \u201cthe Ripper.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Greatest Love of All Time \/ The Margin<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, November 18 at 10:00 PM
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Walerian Borowczyk \/ The Greatest Love of All Time <\/em>\/ 1977 \/ 10min \/ DCP \/ Tamasa Distribution \/ France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A close-up portrait of the Paris-based Serbian erotic surrealist painter Ljuba Popovi\u0107 as he works in his studio. It avoids conventional interviews or biographies, instead using fragmentary close-ups, handheld camera work, and a frantic stream-of-consciousness montage to capture the physical texture of wet paint and the artist’s creative process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walerian Borowczyk \/ The Margin<\/em> \/ 1976 \/ 88min \/ DCP \/ Janus Films \/ France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A businessman leaves his country home, and wife and young son for a business trip to Paris. While there he develops a sexual and spiritual bond with a call girl.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Walerian Borowczyk \/ Rosalie<\/em> \/ 1966 \/ 15min \/ DCP \/ Friends of Walerian Borowczyk \/ France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of all his films, Borowczyk\u2019s favorite was Rosalie<\/em>. Based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant, Borowczyk relates the plight of a servant girl who killed and buried her child in the garden. Featuring a profoundly touching performance by Ligia Borowczyk, once again Borowczyk uses animated objects to relate (horrific) action indirectly. An over-exposed, chiaroscuro image gives the proceedings an ethereal quality halfway between one of Beckett\u2019s monologues and David Lynch\u2019s Eraserhead<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walerian Borowczyk \/ Blanche \/ 1971 \/ 94min \/ DCP \/ France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his servant Bartolomeo, visiting the Master.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Saturday, November 21 at 10:00 PM
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Walerian Borowczyk \/ The Story of Sin<\/em> (Dzieje grzechu<\/em>) \/ 1975 \/ 124min \/ DCP \/ WFDiF \/ Poland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the novel by Polish writer Stefan \u017beromski. The film follows Ewa Pobratynska, a young woman whose passionate love affair leads her into a tragic journey of obsession, sacrifice, and moral transgression. Set against the social conventions of turn-of-the-century Poland, Borowczyk explores desire, religious hypocrisy, and the destructive consequences of forbidden love.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Walerian Borowczyk<\/strong> (1923\u20132006) was a Polish filmmaker, animator, painter, graphic artist, screenwriter, and production designer. He studied painting and graphic arts in Krak\u00f3w, graduating in 1951. In 1956, he began collaborating with Jan Lenica, and their animated film Once Upon a Time<\/em> (1957) brought them international recognition. Borowczyk moved permanently to Paris in 1959, where he continued making animated films, short live-action films, and feature films. A pioneering figure in Polish animation, Borowczyk developed a distinctive visual language combining cut-outs, photographs, paintings, found objects, and unconventional editing techniques. His animated works helped establish animation as an art form capable of exploring complex philosophical and human themes. From the late 1960s, he increasingly turned to live-action filmmaking, making films including Goto, Isle of Love<\/em> (1968), Rosalie<\/em> (1966), Blanche<\/em> (1971), Immoral Tales<\/em> (1974), and The Story of Sin<\/em> (1975). His work is characterized by extraordinary visual imagination, surrealist grotesque, dark humor, and an exploration of eroticism, desire, and human nature. Borowczyk received numerous international awards, including the Max Ernst Award in 1967 for his contribution to animated cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From his beautifully unsettling early animations and experimental short films to his subversive fever dreams of features, the American Cinematheque, in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York, is proud to present a collection of landmark 20th century European cinema by the \u201cengineer of ecstasy.\u201d\\nVenus on the Half-Shell \/ The Beast\\nSaturday, October 24 at 10:00 PM\\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ Venus on the Half-Shell \/ 1975 \/ 5min \/ DCP \/ Tamasa Distribution \/ France\\nFeaturing Bona Tibertelli De Pisis\u2019s excellent erotic graphic works \u2013 wife of writer Andr\u00e9 Pieyre de Mandiargues while working in her atelier, together with fragments of her graphic works inspired by one of Remy de Gourmont\u2019s writings.\\nRestored in 4K in 2026 by Friends of Walerian Borowczyk at Fixafilm laboratory, from a 35mm internegative and the original 35mm negative. Funding provided by Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej.\\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ The Beast \/ 1975 \/ 108min \/ AGFA \/ DCP \/ France\\nWalerian Borowczyk\u2019s most notorious film wildly re-works Beauty and the Beast into an adult fairy tale that parodies pornographic tropes and assaults all notions of \u201cgood taste.\u201d Bestial dreams interrupt the plans of a French aristocrat to marry off Mathurin, his deformed son, to Lucy, a horny American heiress. Yet Mathurin seems more interested in his horses than in his bride-to-be. When Lucy discovers the story of an 18th-century ancestor copulating with the titular beast, it sparks to life one of the most outrageous dream sequences in cinema history. A huge hit in France that was extensively censored and banned all over the world, The Beast (aka La B\u00eate) broke new ground in sexual explicitness and remains a truly startling experience today.\\nJoachim's Dictionary \/ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne\\nFriday, October 30 at 10:00 PM\\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ Joachim\u2019s Dictionary \/ 1965 \/ 9min \/ DCP \/ France\\nBased on a sparse, singular design by Laurence Demaria (Ligia Borowczyk), Joachim defines twenty six words each beginning with a different letter from the alphabet. As with \u201cGrandma\u2019s Encyclopedia,\u201d Borowczyk offers a succession of visual definitions which suggest a doomed attempt at mastering the absurdities of the world. Frequently hilarious, Joachim\u2019s Dictionary is Borowczyk at his most anarchic.\\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne \/ 1981 \/ 92min \/ DCP \/ AGFA \/ France\\nIIt\u2019s the engagement party for brilliant young Dr. Henry Jekyll (Udo Kier, Suspiria) and his fianc\u00e9e, the beautiful Fanny Osbourne (Marina Pierro). The party is attended by various pillars of Victorian society, including Patrick Magee (A Clockwork Orange) in one of his final roles. When people are found assaulted and murdered on the manor grounds, it becomes clear that a maniac is disrupting the festivities. But who is he? And why does Jekyll keep sneaking off to his laboratory? This visually stunning adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s famous story by surrealist icon Walerian Borowczyk (The Beast) is crammed with imaginative and perverse touches.\\nA Private Collection \/ Immoral Tales\\nSaturday, November 7 at 9:30 PM\\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ A Private Collection \/ 1973 \/ 14min \/ Tamasa Distribution \/ France\\nA witty and eye-opening tour through Borowczyk\u2019s own collection of vintage erotica. \u201cA Private Collection\u201d marks the turning-point between Borowczyk\u2019s career as a highly-regarded animator and surrealist filmmaker, and his subsequent career in the sexploitation field.\\nRestored in 4K in 2026 by Friends of Walerian Borowczyk at Fixafilm laboratory, from a 35mm internegative and the original 35mm negative. Funding provided by Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej.\\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ Immoral Tales \/ 1974 \/ 126min \/ AGFA \/ France\\nThe first explicitly erotic feature from the notorious director of The Beast, Immoral Tales presents a veritable cavalcade of depravity in four stories. Structured in reverse chronological order as if to suggest that the same issues recur constantly throughout human civilization, whether involving notorious historical figures like Lucrezia Borgia and Erzs\u00e9bet B\u00e1thory or present-day teenagers, Immoral Tales would transform Walerian Borowczyk\u2019s image from brilliant but obscure avant-garde artist to one of Europe\u2019s most confrontational filmmakers when it came to trampling on sexual taboos.\\nGavotte \/ Lulu\\nThursday, November 12 at 10:00 PM\\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ Gavotte \/ 1967 \/ 12min \/ DCP \/ Friends of Walerian Borowczyk \/ France\\nThe short takes its title and dramatic cues from a baroque gavotte by Jean-Philippe Rameau, which plays on a harpsichord off-camera. Set within a painterly, period living room, the film unfolds like a bizarre and humorous game of musical chairs. It follows two bored dwarves who engage in a petty, escalating fight over a cushion and a place in an armchair. Through its manic, stationary shots and burlesque gags, the short makes a delightful, sadomasochistic mockery of aristocratic decorum.\\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ Lulu \/ 1980 \/ 95min \/ DCP \/ Studio TF1 \/ France\\nThe story of a sexually-enticing young dancer who rises in society through her relationships with wealthy men, but later falls into poverty and prostitution, culminating in an encounter with Jack \u201cthe Ripper.\u201d\\nThe Greatest Love of All Time \/ The Margin\\nWednesday, November 18 at 10:00 PM\\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ The Greatest Love of All Time \/ 1977 \/ 10min \/ DCP \/ Tamasa Distribution \/ France\\nA close-up portrait of the Paris-based Serbian erotic surrealist painter Ljuba Popovi\u0107 as he works in his studio. It avoids conventional interviews or biographies, instead using fragmentary close-ups, handheld camera work, and a frantic stream-of-consciousness montage to capture the physical texture of wet paint and the artist's creative process.\\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ The Margin \/ 1976 \/ 88min \/ DCP \/ Janus Films \/ France\\nA businessman leaves his country home, and wife and young son for a business trip to Paris. While there he develops a sexual and spiritual bond with a call girl.\\nRosalie \/ Blanche\\nFriday, November 20 at 4:00 PM\\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ Rosalie \/ 1966 \/ 15min \/ DCP \/ Friends of Walerian Borowczyk \/ France\\nOf all his films, Borowczyk\u2019s favorite was Rosalie. Based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant, Borowczyk relates the plight of a servant girl who killed and buried her child in the garden. Featuring a profoundly touching performance by Ligia Borowczyk, once again Borowczyk uses animated objects to relate (horrific) action indirectly. An over-exposed, chiaroscuro image gives the proceedings an ethereal quality halfway between one of Beckett\u2019s monologues and David Lynch\u2019s Eraserhead.\\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ Blanche \/ 1971 \/ 94min \/ DCP \/ France\\nBlanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his servant Bartolomeo, visiting the Master.\\nThe Story of Sin\\nSaturday, November 21 at 10:00 PM\\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ The Story of Sin (Dzieje grzechu) \/ 1975 \/ 124min \/ DCP \/ WFDiF \/ Poland\\nBased on the novel by Polish writer Stefan \u017beromski. The film follows Ewa Pobratynska, a young woman whose passionate love affair leads her into a tragic journey of obsession, sacrifice, and moral transgression. Set against the social conventions of turn-of-the-century Poland, Borowczyk explores desire, religious hypocrisy, and the destructive consequences of forbidden love.\\nWalerian Borowczyk (1923\u20132006) was a Polish filmmaker, animator, painter, graphic artist, screenwriter, and production designer. He studied painting and graphic arts in Krak\u00f3w, graduating in 1951. In 1956, he began collaborating with Jan Lenica, and their animated film Once Upon a Time (1957) brought them international recognition. Borowczyk moved permanently to Paris in 1959, where he continued making animated films, short live-action films, and feature films. A pioneering figure in Polish animation, Borowczyk developed a distinctive visual language combining cut-outs, photographs, paintings, found objects, and unconventional editing techniques. His animated works helped establish animation as an art form capable of exploring complex philosophical and human themes. From the late 1960s, he increasingly turned to live-action filmmaking, making films including Goto, Isle of Love (1968), Rosalie (1966), Blanche (1971), Immoral Tales (1974), and The Story of Sin (1975). His work is characterized by extraordinary visual imagination, surrealist grotesque, dark humor, and an exploration of eroticism, desire, and human nature. 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JEKYLL AND MISS OSBOURNE, \u201cA Private Collection,\u201d IMMORAL TALES, \u201cGavotte,\u201d LULU, \u201cThe Greatest Love of All Time,\u201d THE MARGIN, \u201cRosalie,\u201d BLANCHE and THE STORY OF SIN\nProvocative, surreal and defiantly transgressive, Walerian Borowczyk\u2019s cinema boldly explores the unspoken aspects of existence and sensuality. As disturbing as it is humorous, the visionary\u2019s oeuvre dares to transform forbidden desires and moral musings into fantastical dreamscapes that satirize the complexities of the human condition. From his beautifully unsettling early animations and experimental short films to his subversive fever dreams of features, the American Cinematheque, in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York, is proud to present a collection of landmark 20th century European cinema by the \u201cengineer of ecstasy.\u201d\nVenus on the Half-Shell \/ The Beast\nSaturday, October 24 at 10:00 PM\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ Venus on the Half-Shell \/ 1975 \/ 5min \/ DCP \/ Tamasa Distribution \/ France\nFeaturing Bona Tibertelli De Pisis\u2019s excellent erotic graphic works \u2013 wife of writer Andr\u00e9 Pieyre de Mandiargues while working in her atelier, together with fragments of her graphic works inspired by one of Remy de Gourmont\u2019s writings.\nRestored in 4K in 2026 by Friends of Walerian Borowczyk at Fixafilm laboratory, from a 35mm internegative and the original 35mm negative. Funding provided by Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej.\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ The Beast \/ 1975 \/ 108min \/ AGFA \/ DCP \/ France\nWalerian Borowczyk\u2019s most notorious film wildly re-works Beauty and the Beast into an adult fairy tale that parodies pornographic tropes and assaults all notions of \u201cgood taste.\u201d Bestial dreams interrupt the plans of a French aristocrat to marry off Mathurin, his deformed son, to Lucy, a horny American heiress. Yet Mathurin seems more interested in his horses than in his bride-to-be. When Lucy discovers the story of an 18th-century ancestor copulating with the titular beast, it sparks to life one of the most outrageous dream sequences in cinema history. A huge hit in France that was extensively censored and banned all over the world, The Beast (aka La B\u00eate) broke new ground in sexual explicitness and remains a truly startling experience today.\nJoachim's Dictionary \/ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne\nFriday, October 30 at 10:00 PM\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ Joachim\u2019s Dictionary \/ 1965 \/ 9min \/ DCP \/ France\nBased on a sparse, singular design by Laurence Demaria (Ligia Borowczyk), Joachim defines twenty six words each beginning with a different letter from the alphabet. As with \u201cGrandma\u2019s Encyclopedia,\u201d Borowczyk offers a succession of visual definitions which suggest a doomed attempt at mastering the absurdities of the world. Frequently hilarious, Joachim\u2019s Dictionary is Borowczyk at his most anarchic.\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne \/ 1981 \/ 92min \/ DCP \/ AGFA \/ France\nIIt\u2019s the engagement party for brilliant young Dr. Henry Jekyll (Udo Kier, Suspiria) and his fianc\u00e9e, the beautiful Fanny Osbourne (Marina Pierro). The party is attended by various pillars of Victorian society, including Patrick Magee (A Clockwork Orange) in one of his final roles. When people are found assaulted and murdered on the manor grounds, it becomes clear that a maniac is disrupting the festivities. But who is he? And why does Jekyll keep sneaking off to his laboratory? This visually stunning adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson\u2019s famous story by surrealist icon Walerian Borowczyk (The Beast) is crammed with imaginative and perverse touches.\nA Private Collection \/ Immoral Tales\nSaturday, November 7 at 9:30 PM\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ A Private Collection \/ 1973 \/ 14min \/ Tamasa Distribution \/ France\nA witty and eye-opening tour through Borowczyk\u2019s own collection of vintage erotica. \u201cA Private Collection\u201d marks the turning-point between Borowczyk\u2019s career as a highly-regarded animator and surrealist filmmaker, and his subsequent career in the sexploitation field.\nRestored in 4K in 2026 by Friends of Walerian Borowczyk at Fixafilm laboratory, from a 35mm internegative and the original 35mm negative. Funding provided by Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej.\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ Immoral Tales \/ 1974 \/ 126min \/ AGFA \/ France\nThe first explicitly erotic feature from the notorious director of The Beast, Immoral Tales presents a veritable cavalcade of depravity in four stories. Structured in reverse chronological order as if to suggest that the same issues recur constantly throughout human civilization, whether involving notorious historical figures like Lucrezia Borgia and Erzs\u00e9bet B\u00e1thory or present-day teenagers, Immoral Tales would transform Walerian Borowczyk\u2019s image from brilliant but obscure avant-garde artist to one of Europe\u2019s most confrontational filmmakers when it came to trampling on sexual taboos.\nGavotte \/ Lulu\nThursday, November 12 at 10:00 PM\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ Gavotte \/ 1967 \/ 12min \/ DCP \/ Friends of Walerian Borowczyk \/ France\nThe short takes its title and dramatic cues from a baroque gavotte by Jean-Philippe Rameau, which plays on a harpsichord off-camera. Set within a painterly, period living room, the film unfolds like a bizarre and humorous game of musical chairs. It follows two bored dwarves who engage in a petty, escalating fight over a cushion and a place in an armchair. Through its manic, stationary shots and burlesque gags, the short makes a delightful, sadomasochistic mockery of aristocratic decorum.\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ Lulu \/ 1980 \/ 95min \/ DCP \/ Studio TF1 \/ France\nThe story of a sexually-enticing young dancer who rises in society through her relationships with wealthy men, but later falls into poverty and prostitution, culminating in an encounter with Jack \u201cthe Ripper.\u201d\nThe Greatest Love of All Time \/ The Margin\nWednesday, November 18 at 10:00 PM\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ The Greatest Love of All Time \/ 1977 \/ 10min \/ DCP \/ Tamasa Distribution \/ France\nA close-up portrait of the Paris-based Serbian erotic surrealist painter Ljuba Popovi\u0107 as he works in his studio. It avoids conventional interviews or biographies, instead using fragmentary close-ups, handheld camera work, and a frantic stream-of-consciousness montage to capture the physical texture of wet paint and the artist's creative process.\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ The Margin \/ 1976 \/ 88min \/ DCP \/ Janus Films \/ France\nA businessman leaves his country home, and wife and young son for a business trip to Paris. While there he develops a sexual and spiritual bond with a call girl.\nRosalie \/ Blanche\nFriday, November 20 at 4:00 PM\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ Rosalie \/ 1966 \/ 15min \/ DCP \/ Friends of Walerian Borowczyk \/ France\nOf all his films, Borowczyk\u2019s favorite was Rosalie. Based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant, Borowczyk relates the plight of a servant girl who killed and buried her child in the garden. Featuring a profoundly touching performance by Ligia Borowczyk, once again Borowczyk uses animated objects to relate (horrific) action indirectly. An over-exposed, chiaroscuro image gives the proceedings an ethereal quality halfway between one of Beckett\u2019s monologues and David Lynch\u2019s Eraserhead.\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ Blanche \/ 1971 \/ 94min \/ DCP \/ France\nBlanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his servant Bartolomeo, visiting the Master.\nThe Story of Sin\nSaturday, November 21 at 10:00 PM\nWalerian Borowczyk \/ The Story of Sin (Dzieje grzechu) \/ 1975 \/ 124min \/ DCP \/ WFDiF \/ Poland\nBased on the novel by Polish writer Stefan \u017beromski. The film follows Ewa Pobratynska, a young woman whose passionate love affair leads her into a tragic journey of obsession, sacrifice, and moral transgression. Set against the social conventions of turn-of-the-century Poland, Borowczyk explores desire, religious hypocrisy, and the destructive consequences of forbidden love.\nWalerian Borowczyk (1923\u20132006) was a Polish filmmaker, animator, painter, graphic artist, screenwriter, and production designer. He studied painting and graphic arts in Krak\u00f3w, graduating in 1951. In 1956, he began collaborating with Jan Lenica, and their animated film Once Upon a Time (1957) brought them international recognition. Borowczyk moved permanently to Paris in 1959, where he continued making animated films, short live-action films, and feature films. A pioneering figure in Polish animation, Borowczyk developed a distinctive visual language combining cut-outs, photographs, paintings, found objects, and unconventional editing techniques. His animated works helped establish animation as an art form capable of exploring complex philosophical and human themes. From the late 1960s, he increasingly turned to live-action filmmaking, making films including Goto, Isle of Love (1968), Rosalie (1966), Blanche (1971), Immoral Tales (1974), and The Story of Sin (1975). His work is characterized by extraordinary visual imagination, surrealist grotesque, dark humor, and an exploration of eroticism, desire, and human nature. Borowczyk received numerous international awards, including the Max Ernst Award in 1967 for his contribution to animated cinema.\nCo-presented by the American Cinematheque and the Polish Cultural Institute New York, with additional support from the Polish Film Institute.","offers":{"@type":"Offer"}},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2026\/11\/04\/the-immoral-tales-of-walerian-borowczyk-at-american-cinematheque\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/11\/WALERIAN_BOROWCZYK_Series_Hero_1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2026\/11\/WALERIAN_BOROWCZYK_Series_Hero_1.png","width":620,"height":348},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2026\/11\/04\/the-immoral-tales-of-walerian-borowczyk-at-american-cinematheque\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Immoral Tales of Walerian Borowczyk at American Cinematheque"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#website","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/","name":"Instytut Polski w Nowym Jorku","description":"Instytuty Polskie","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"pl-PL"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#\/schema\/person\/c732b2695ee92026d080eec35471c7f1","name":"stypulkowskaa","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a28cee30023e60aaadd7265c034712e0bff48f0104612319d472cc274e96a303?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a28cee30023e60aaadd7265c034712e0bff48f0104612319d472cc274e96a303?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"stypulkowskaa"},"url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/author\/stypulkowskaa-2\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22587"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22639,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22587\/revisions\/22639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}