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programme part: SWISS ANIMATION TODAY 79'

Thursday, 3. June 16:00, Tuškanac cinema

Sunday, 6. June 16:00, Europa cinema

Georges Schwizgebel

Georges Schwizgebel

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Animatou / Animatou

Georges Schwizgebel

Switzerland / 2007 / 5' 36''

Director: Roméo Andreani, Claude Barras, Dominique Delachaux, Alexandre Lachavanne, Claude Luyet, Georges Schwizgebel

Production: Studio GDS , Télévision Suisse Romande

Editing: Valérie Perriraz

Music: Gabriel Scotti, Vincent Hänni

Sound: Edgard Biondina

Synopsis

A cat chasing a mouse, in five different animation techniques.

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).