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programme part: GEORGES SCHWIZGEBEL 72'

Tuesday, 1. June 20:00, Tuškanac cinema

Saturday, 5. June 11:00, Europa cinema

Georges Schwizgebel

Georges Schwizgebel

Ikar_1

Le vol d'Icare / The Flight of Icarus

Georges Schwizgebel

Switzerland / 1974 / 3' 0''

Director: Georges Schwizgebel

Production: Studio GDS

Screenplay: Georges Schwizgebel

Camera: Georges Schwizgebel

Editing: Georges Schwizgebel

Music: François Couperin

Sound: Guy Waschmuth

Synopsis

A pointillist musical illustration of the tale of Icarus wishing to imitate the birds right up to burning his wings close to the sun.

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)