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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

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La jeune fille et les nuages / The Young Girl and the Clouds

Georges Schwizgebel

France, Switzerland / 2000 / 5' 0''

Director: Georges Schwizgebel

Production: Studio GDS/Television Suisse Romande/Arte France

Screenplay: Georges Schwizgebel

Camera: Georges Schwizgebel

Editing: Georges Schwizgebel

Music: Felix Mendelsohn, Pete Ehrnrooth

Synopsis

The story of Cinderella is modernised. Cinderella dreams of clouds and ends up fleeing by plane with her Prince Charming. The image is animated simultaneously at various speeds (decor, moving elements, characters) in connection with the sound tape played by Georges Schwizgebel on the piano. It is an intelligent variation on a well-known story with which the viewer can identify.

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)