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programme part: GRAND COMPETITION 3

Tuesday, 29. May 22:00, Cineplexx Centar Kaptol

Thursday, 31. May 20:00, Europa cinema

Georges Schwizgebel

Georges Schwizgebel

Romance

Romance / Romance

Georges Schwizgebel

Canada, Switzerland / 2011 / 7' 10''

Director: Georges Schwizgebel

Production: Studio GDS

Distribution: NFB

Animation: Georges Schwizgebel

Set: Georges Schwizgebel

Screenplay: Georges Schwizgebel

Storyboard: Georges Schwizgebel

Camera: Georges Schwizgebel

Editing: Georges Schwizgebel

Music: Serge Rachmaninov

Sound: Olivier Calvert

Synopsis

A casual meeting on a plane and watching a movie turns into a virtual romance. While on an airplane, a traveller's spirit plunges into a dream world. Here, under the influence of the unknown, the logic of his desires prevails, and a romantic saga takes shape. This animated film by Georges Schwizgebel masterfully transports us into a swirling world. Set to the twists and turns of a Rachmaninoff scherzo, Romanceexuberantly marries music and movement, erasing the boundary between dreams and reality.

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).