PIOTR KABAT - A PAINTER & DIRECTOR

Piotr Kabat is a painter and director based in Bielsko-Biała, Poland. He paints the American West he grew up with - remixed through movies, television and pop culture.

A graduate in Animation from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, he has directed videos and album visuals for ANTI- Records in Los Angeles, co-directed a short WW2 documentary Minor Accident of War in the US, and holds a diamond record awarded in his own name for Guzior's "Fala".

EDUCATION

2015 MA Animation

Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, poland

EXHIBITIONS

2026 Pump n Paint

Bielsko-Biała, Poland

FILM / ANIMATION

2023 All My Fucking Superheroes

Director, writer, animator. 12 min, black-and-white animation, prod. Letko.

SELECTED AT:

Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA (Academy Award-qualifying) 2024 ·

64th KrakowFilm Festival, Poland, 2024 ·

Athens Animfest, Greece, 2025

2020 Minor Accident of War

Co - director / Animator . Animated short from the poem by WW2 veteran Edward Field, produced by Diane Fredel-Weis (USA)

Selected at:

Fort Lauderdale Int Film Festival, Santa Fe Film Festival, Miami Jewish Film Festival, Big Apple Film Festiva, Studio City Film Festival, AmDocs, Veterns Film Fest, Sedona Film Festival

2017 Thank God for the Rain

Director, animator. Travis Bickle's monologue from Scorsese's Taxi Driver.

Selected for VIMEO STAFF PICK

2016 Super Film

Director, ANIMATOR 5 min. Diploma film a tribute to american films, tv and cartoons.

SELECTED AT 13 festivals 2016-2018 including DOK Leipzig Germany - Tampere Film Festival, Finland - Krakow Film Festival, New Horizons IFF - Animateka Slovenia - Trieste Film Festival, Italy

2013 the EDGE

Director, animator. Set to Johnny Depp's reading of Hunter S. Thompson's Hell's Angels.

Selected for VIMEO STAFF PICK

MUSIC VIDEO & ALBUM VISUALS

2026 Guzior - Stacja Widmo

Creative Director + Designer of A full album cover

2021 Guzior - “F A L A” (feat. Oskar83)

Director. Diamond record awarded in the artist's own name for the album Pleśń(eviltwin / QueQuality)

2018 - 2019 ANTI-Records, Los Angeles

Director / Animator for:

Delicate Steve, Till I Burn Up (2019): visuals for the complete album and theanimated video for “Freedom”

Glen Hansard, “Roll On Slow”

Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite, No Mercy In ThisLand (short documentary)

Son Little, “Never Give Up” (aloha, 2020)

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