Fugue / Fugue
Georges Schwizgebel
Switzerland /
1998 /
7' 12''
Director: Georges Schwizgebel
Production: Studio GDS/Television Suisse Romande
Screenplay: Georges Schwizgebel
Camera: Georges Schwizgebel
Editing: Georges Schwizgebel
Music: Michèle Bokanowski
Synopsis
A person dozing in a hotel room allows himself to be invaded by memories which form an escape expressed in drawings. The film is one of the most complex by Georges Schwizgebel. The use of vivid colours, the counterpoint of the interwoven images, the animation of impossible geometric figures combined with a contemporary sound tape make this film one of the best and most interesting in the author's filmography.
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)
