Music-video director Zbigniew Rybczyński (pronounced "Rib-chin-ski") is a preposterously talented, tech-savvy maverick. Simultaneously breaking and making the rules of established filmmaking, Rybczyński earned his Hollywood rep in the early '80s, creating mind-bending clips for John Lennon, Mick Jagger, and Grandmaster Flash. Rybczynski's techniques — pixelation and motion-control photography — set the tone for MTV's early heyday and inspired decades of subsequent music-video artistes. (Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze are among his disciples.) Tonight, the Silent Movie Theatre and Rybczyński himself present a retrospective of the director's groundbreaking shorts.