Le ravissement de Frank N. Stein / The Ravishing of Frank N. Stein
Georges Schwizgebel
Switzerland /
1982 /
9' 30''
Director: Georges Schwizgebel
Production: Studio GDS
Screenplay: Georges Schwizgebel
Camera: Georges Schwizgebel
Editing: Georges Schwizgebel
Music: Michael Horowitz, Rainer Boësch
Synopsis
The slow construction of an image, to a rhythm of footsteps, ends with the meeting of the monster and his fiancé. Using a subjective vision, the viewer is literally in the position of the monster and crosses several rooms filled with objects and beings along the line of progression until emerging into the face of the loved one who lets off a cry of horror.
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)
