Nakounine / Nakounine
Georges Schwizgebel
Switzerland /
1986 /
6' 0''
Director: Georges Schwizgebel
Production: Television Suisse Romande
Screenplay: Georges Schwizgebel
Camera: Georges Schwizgebel
Editing: Georges Schwizgebel
Music: Michael Horowitz
Synopsis
A bicycle trip through the streets of Shanghai between winter and summer, from the suburbs to the city centre. Some animations, discreet ones, are added to bring to life the still images by adding cellulose to the photos under the caption stand.
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)
