Jarek Kupść 

Polish-American creator of all things visual and textual.

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Born and raised in Warszawa (Warsaw, Poland), migrated south to Greece after art high school. In Athens, he studied Byzantine icon techniques and survived doing street portraiture. 

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Emigrated to the US, initially settling in Philadelphia, where he acquired a useful survival skill of silkscreen graphic design and printing.

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In California, he designed T-shirt graphics for a living, while studying film writing and directing. He had his first solo art show at 23, in San Francisco. After completing his education, he wrote and illustrated a book on film history and made his first feature film.

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After a stint in New York, where he storyboarded for commercials, he relocated to Los Angeles with a new family. He made two more feature films while supporting himself as an illustrator, designer and, strangely enough, actor.

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Due to external circumstances, he moved back to Poland, where he currently resides, and continues to make films, write and illustrate, as well as teach cinema at a university level.