Cited as the single greatest influence on the surreal comic animation of director Terry Gilliam, the cinema of Polish avant garde animator turned pornographic provocateur Walerian Boroczyk consists of a diverse library of films that for the most part have remained undiscovered by international cinephiles until just recently thanks to the dedicated efforts of Arrow Video and Gilliam who have been resurrecting his long thought lost works.

Still a divisive surrealist treading a fine line between the experimental avant-garde short films from the 1920s and 30s and mere pure sexploitation, Borowczyk’s work continues to polarize and defy easy categorization. In the same year the director’s most controversial film, an X rated fantasy bestiality take on, the electrically charged filmmaker would direct arguably one of his tamer and more accessible works in his oeuvre: