Docteur Jekyll et les femmes

Borowczyk draws on the legend that the first version of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written by a cocaine-addled Robert Louis Stevenson, was burned by his Puritan wife for the sexual excesses it contained. In Borowczyk's intimate fiction, which takes place over the course of a single night, Henry Jekyll plunges into a chemical bath, only to emerge as the monstrously endowed Mr. Hyde. Borowczyk's masterpiece of surrealist cinema, which cleverly moves between brutal farce, bloodthirsty delirium and erotic madness, won the directing award at the 1981 Sitges Festival.

+ short film

Fonograf / Le Phonographe
directed by Walerian Borowczyk / France 1969 / 9 min. / DCP

An old phonograph assembles itself and plays songs from wax cylinders until it succumbs to decay. In many ways, the phonograph refers to the glorious Renaissance. But it also points to Borowczyk's fascination with memory stored in old objects and his nostalgia for the pre-war era. The music has finished, the memories are fading. Borowczyk's last stop-motion animation.