Kamila Kuc is Associate Lecturer in New Media at Kingston University and Goldsmiths College, University of London, as well as a writer, curator, and experimental filmmaker. Her most recent publication is The Struggle for Form: Perspectives on Polish Avant-Garde Film 1916 - 1989 (Wallflower Press, 2014), co-edited with Michael O'Pray. Kuba Mikurda teaches at the Film School in Lodz, Poland, and is a film critic, curator, and broadcaster. He is series editor of "Linia Filmowa" for Korporacja Ha!art Press, with whom he recently published Corpus Delicti in collaboration with Jakub Woynarowski (2013). Michal Oleszczyk is the artistic director of Gdynia Film Festival, as well as programmer for Polish Filmmakers NYC, a New York - based organization devoted to promoting Polish cinema in the U.S. He also works as a film critic, scholar, and translator.

"The contributors to this collection use new archival sources to provide a comprehensive map of Boro's career and to reestablish his place in the history of Polish and European avant-garde and art cinema. All the essays are well informed and clearly written; collectively, they provide valuable insights into Boro's often puzzling, sometimes scandalous motivations and productions." - Choice..".a thought-provoking collection of different essays commenting on the life and films of a renowned Polish film director, Walerian Borowczyk... One of the strengths of this book is that the authors of the essays link Borowczyk's artistic output with the social and artistic environment of Poland in which he grew up, and of France, where he spent most of his adult life." - Slavic Review

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: A Private Universe Kamila Kuc, Kuba Mikurda, Michal Oleszczyk Chapter 1. Boro: Escape Artist Kuba Mikurda Chapter 2. Borowczyk's Kunstkamera Marcin Gizycki Chapter 3. Animated Bodies: A Conversation Between Kuba Mikurda and Jakub Woynarowski Chapter 4. Cruel Imagination: Borowczyk's Post-Traumatic Surrealism Iwona Kurz Chapter 5. The Postcard Never Sent: Guy de Maupassant and Rosalie Prudent's Cinematic Confession Kamila Kuc Chapter 6. Boro: The Guide for the Perplexed Fernando F. Croce Chapter 7. Borowczyk's Serial Labyrinth: From Goto, Isle of Love (1968) to Behind Convent Walls (1977) James Snazell Chapter 8. Immoral Toys: On Borowczyk's A Private Collection (1974) Edwin Carels Chapter 9. The Beast with Two Backs: On Borowczyk's The Beast (1975) Philip Warnell Chapter 10. Laughter in the Doll House: On Victorian Surrealism in Walerian Borowczyk's Films Kamila Wielebska Chapter 11. Enjoying Excess: A Bataillean Interpretation of Story of Sin (1975) by Walerian Borowczyk and Stefan Zeromski Marta Rabikowska Chapter 12. The Beach, the Bubble and the Boudoir: The Meeting-Spaces of Walerian Borowczyk and Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues Jonathan Owen Chapter 13. Sex & the Sacred: The Obstacles to Desire Becoming its Objects Jakub Majmurek Chapter 14. Reflecting on The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981) Budd Wilkins Chapter 15. The Perils of Emmanuelle: A Conversation between Simon Abrams, Odie Henderson, and Michal Oleszczyk Chapter 16. Revisiting Love Rites (1988) Kevin Lee Contributors Biographies Filmography