The Flight of Icarus (1974)
Genre : Animation
Runtime : 3M
Director : Georges Schwizgebel
Synopsis
Loosely following the Greek myth of the Flight of Icarus, Georges Schwizgebel opens his directional career with Le vol d'lcare, a short animation of LED lights.
With the complicity of a painter, an elderly man recovers youth and manages to wander through paintings.
An animated short where no real story is being told and the perspective is constantly shifting.
A descrition of a game between two teams where one of the teams change the rules.
The story of a young deer deceived by appearances, or how a good deed in haste can be the cause of a tragedy.
While on an airplane, a traveller's spirit plunges into a dream world. Here, under the influence of the unknown, the logic of his desires prevails, and a romantic saga takes shape.
The 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest. But they are under attack from the Japanese. Civilian refugees walk, stumble, crawl to escape the destruction of their cities... While in the China of tradition, water buffalo still work the paddies and camels cross the desert, modern China is now a republic founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with modern schools, heavy industry, large engineering projects... The government of Chiang Kai-shek resists the Japanese invasion from the coast. Madame Chiang receives a cheque from the U.S.A. for war relief. War production continues in distant villages safe from the grasp of the Japanese. With modern weapons the Chinese are pursuing their struggle behind enemy lines. And still their opponent persists in his reprisal bombings of civilian targets. "Will these people win?"
An old man who took in and nursed a wounded crane is visited by a young, beautifully dressed woman.
A man puts all the things from his apartment into one enormous closet and starts living there.
A man living a dream experience linked to memories of his childhood.
Women getting onto a rickshaw.
A man films people passing through a gate.
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
A six minute short made in New York City by Jeffrey Noyes Scher.
Short film by Zbigniew Rybczyński.
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