Jarek Czarnecki (pseudonym: Elvin Flamingo) graduated in 2004 from the Department of Painting and Graphic Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. His supervisors were professors Jerzy Krechowicz and Jacek Staniszewski. Artist, filmmaker, painter and graphic designer. Founder of the group "Onion Center Club" (1999-2001), co-author (with Mikołaj Trzaska) of the music to Andrzej Stasiuk's prose, co-founder (with Andrzej Nadgrabski) of the "Absurdism Manifesto" (2003), founder of the group "A Taste of Honey" (2004). Operates under the pseudonym of Elvin Flamingo since 2006. Lives and works in Sopot [Poland].


Earlier films:

"The Joiner's Baby"(2004) –
a manifesto of absurdism inspired by Roland Topor's drama- received the Jury's Special Award in 2005 (the jury: Piotr Łazarkiewicz, Maria Kornatowska, Krzysztof Kornacki). Screened in Poland and the USA.
"Mama Africa" (2006) -
a touching documentary about the journey of two motorcyclists (Maciej Swinarski, Wojciech Cieślak) who covered 22 thousand kilometers from Northern Poland to Cape Town in the Republic of South Africa. The film was presented at a number of independent film screenings and at the opening of the Euroshorts 2006 festival in Warsaw.