Camera Obscura: The Walerian Borowczyk Collection (5-Disc Blu-ray Box Set)

This ground-breaking collection brings together director Walerian Borowczyk's key films from a twenty-five-year period stretching from 1959 through to 1984. This unique release includes five of Borowczyk's provocative feature films: Theatre of Mr and Mrs Kabal, Goto, Isle of Love, Blanche, Immoral Tales and The Beast as well as his ground-breaking short films from this period, in digital high definition restorations approved by the director's widow, Ligia Branice.

In addition to exclusive documentaries featuring cast and crew, an hour long portrait of Borowczyk is also included here, featuring the director's musings on painting, animation and sex. 

5-Disc Special Edition Contents:

• HD restorations of the five features
• High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations
• Original uncompressed mono 1.0 audio
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Reversible sleeves featuring Borowczyk's original poster designs and artwork

Theatre of Mr and Mrs Kabal

• The short films Astronauts (1959), The Concert (1962), Grandmother's Encyclopaedia (1963), Renaissance (1963), Angels Games (1964), Joachim's Dictionary (1965), Rosalie (1966), Gavotte (1967), Diptych (1967), The Phonograph (1969), The Greatest Love of All Time (1978) and Scherzo Infernal (1984)
• Introduction by filmmaker and animator Terry Gilliam
• Film is Not a Sausage, a documentary about Borowczyk's animated work featuring Borowczyk, producer Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin, assistant André Heinrich and composer Bernard Parmegiani
• Commercials by Walerian Borowczyk: Holy Smoke (1963), The Museum (1964) and Tom Thumb (1966)

Goto, Isle of Love

• Introduction by artist and Turner Prize nominee Craigie Horsfield
• The Concentration Universe, a new interview programme featuring actor Jean-Pierre Andréani, cameraman Noël Véry and camera assistant Jean-Pierre Platel
• The Profligate Door, a new documentary about Borowczyk's sound sculptures featuring curator Maurice Corbet

Blanche

• Introduction by Schalcken the Painter director Leslie Megahey
• Ballad of Imprisonment, a documentary about the film featuring producer Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin, assistant director André Heinrich, camera operator Noël Véry and assistant Patrice Leconte
• Obscure Pleasures: A Portrait of Walerian Borowczyk, a newly edited archival interview in which Borowczyk discusses painting, cinema and sex
• Gunpoint, a documentary short by Peter Graham produced and edited by Borowczyk

Immoral Tales

• Introduction by Borowczyk expert Daniel Bird
• Love Reveals Itself, a video essay about the film featuring production manager Dominique Duvergé-Ségrétin and cinematographer Noël Véry
• Blow Ups, a visual essay by Daniel Bird about Borowczyk's works on paper
• Theatrical trailer

The Beast

• An introduction by film critic Peter Bradshaw
• Borowczyk's erotic short film Venus on the Half-Shell (1975)
• The Making of the Beast, an hour-long documentary with rare on-set footage, narrated by cameraman Noël Véry
• Frenzy of Ecstasy, a visual essay about The Beast's design and the film's unmade sequel
• Original theatrical trailer