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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

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Jeu / Play

Georges Schwizgebel

Canada, Switzerland / 2006 / 3' 50''

Director: Georges Schwizgebel

Production: Studio GDS/Television Suisse Romande/NFB

Screenplay: Georges Schwizgebel

Music: Scherzo to Piano Concerto No.2, Orchestre de la Suisse romande and NFB/ONF

Sound: Jean-Claude Gaberel

Synopsis

From the detailed account announcing the beginning to the rigid appearance of the word END, Jeu provokes a magnificent vertigo with its uninterrupted running, full of surprises. A furious race towards final immobilisation, like a metaphor of modern restlessness, the illustration of a world resting on a succession of forms which become distorted to deceive the senses again and again in a pirouetting and playful choreography.

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)