Le sujet du tableau / The Subject of the Picture
Georges Schwizgebel
Switzerland /
1989 /
6' 10''
Director: Georges Schwizgebel
Production: Studio GDS
Screenplay: Georges Schwizgebel
Camera: Georges Schwizgebel
Editing: Georges Schwizgebel
Music: Jacques Robellaz
Synopsis
Thanks to the painter brushing his portrait, an old man rediscovers his youth. This is an adaptation of the myth of Faust, the character being guided and manipulated by the devilish painter. The film makes simultaneous use of direct painting under the camera, painting on cellulose (the customary technique of Georges Schwizgebel) and animations on magnetised cut paper.
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)
