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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

L_homme_sans

L'homme sans ombre / The Man Without a Shadow

Georges Schwizgebel

Canada, Switzerland / 2004 / 10' 0''

Director: Georges Schwizgebel

Production: Studio GDS/Television Suisse Romande/NFB

Screenplay: Georges Schwizgebel, adapté du récit de Adelbert von Chamisso «L'étrange histoire de Peter Schlemihl

Camera: Georges Schwizgebel

Editing: Georges Schwizgebel

Music: Judith Gruber-Stitzer

Sound: Olivier Calvert

Synopsis

A man exchanges his shadow for richness. Disillusioned, he has to be content with seven-league boots. The film benefits from the quality of the NFB production with rich sound effects. Schwizgebel installs the mysterious atmosphere with one of the longest and most beautiful opening sequences of his career. The use of metamorphoses makes it possible to carry out semantic shortcuts in order to deliver the story.

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)