L'anne du daim / The Year of the Deer
Georges Schwizgebel
Switzerland /
1995 /
5' 15''
Director: Georges Schwizgebel
Production: Television Suisse Romande/La sept Arte
Screenplay: Georges Schwizgebel
Camera: Georges Schwizgebel
Editing: Georges Schwizgebel
Music: Philippe Koller, Quatuor Ortys
Synopsis
The tragic destiny of a young deer deceived by appearances. This visual, very illustrative and polished film is inspired by the atmospheres of the four seasons corresponding to four musical movements. The film is made up not solely of painted cellulose but also of pastel animations on glass 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)
