78 tours / 78 R.P.M.
Georges Schwizgebel
Switzerland /
1985 /
4' 0''
Director: Georges Schwizgebel
Production: Studio GDS
Screenplay: Georges Schwizgebel
Camera: Georges Schwizgebel
Editing: Georges Schwizgebel
Music: Alessandro Morelli
Sound: Jacques Robellaz
Synopsis
A subjective camera and a fixed framing alternate to an accordion waltz which triggers a short story recalling the passing of time. The entire film is based on the graphic notion of circles and rings. From a cup of coffee to children's games passing through a spiral staircase. The camera itself whirls round following the general aesthetics.
Georges Schwizgebel
Born 1944 in Reconvilier, Switzerland, Georges Schwizgebel is among the greatest names of contemporary animation. This well-rounded author of 15 short films has seen his work awarded in Cannes, Annecy, Zagreb, Hiroshima, Stuttgart, Ottawa and Espinho. Two of his films – 78 R.P.M. (1985) and The Ride to the Abyss (1992) – rank among the hundred most influential animated films on a list published by the Annecy Festival in 2006. (…) Though he first used rotoscoping (Perspectives, 1975; Off-side, 1977), Schwizgebel later traded this tool in for a freer approach marked by the gestural application of colour and frequent use of geometric shapes. (Marcel Jean)
