Retouches / Retouches
Georges Schwizgebel
Canada, France, Switzerland /
2008 /
5' 35''
Director: Georges Schwizgebel
Production: Studio GDS
Distribution: Studio GDS , NFB
Animation: Georges Schwizgebel
Set: Georges Schwizgebel
Screenplay: Georges Schwizgebel
Storyboard: Georges Schwizgebel
Music: Normand Roger , Denis Chartrand
Sound: Serge Boivin
Synopsis
Between a wave's rhythm and the breath of a young woman in her sleep, some animated paintings go on modifying each other. Acrylic painting on cell and pastel on paper. It is an attempt to show us the process: the movement, as well as the artist in the act of creating that movement. (Georges Schwizgebel)
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).
