Georges Schwizgebel
Nascimento : 1944-09-28, Reconvilier, Switzerland
História
Schwizgebel was born on 28 September 1944 in Reconvilier, Canton of Berne (Jura bernois), in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. From 1960-65 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts et des Arts Décoratifs at Geneva. In 1971 he founded Studio GDS where he produced and directed animated films as well as working in graphic design. From 1986 to 1995 he worked on retrospectives and exhibitions, among others, in Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Osaka, Paris and New York. In 2002 he was awarded Swiss Film Prize, Best Short Film for “La jeune fille et les nuages”. His film, The Man With No Shadow was included in the Animation Show of Shows.
His 2011 short film Romance, a co-production of the National Film Board of Canada and two Swiss studios, was one of five animated shorts nominated for the 32nd Genie Awards, where it won the Award for Best Animated Short.
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Two long visual sentences answering each other. The film begins with a part of the title disappearing through a cut in its center, cutting through the middle and producing a movement from right to left, revealing a room occupied by a child and her black maid. This is followed by an uninterrupted series of animated images, a kind of fleeting moment or painting that continually transforms, until it becomes a copy of Edouard Manet’s Olympia (1863). The second part begins with the title’s next part, which disappears just like the first one, setting in motion a reverse movement, from left to right, where images related to the first part, out of focus or from other points of view, arrive, ending with the reproduction of Félix Vallotton’s La Blanche et la Noire (1913).
Director of Photography
The return of three Anglicizied natives people to their county or the beginning of a meeting with the modern world that will destroy them.
Editor
The return of three Anglicizied natives people to their county or the beginning of a meeting with the modern world that will destroy them.
Producer
The return of three Anglicizied natives people to their county or the beginning of a meeting with the modern world that will destroy them.
Writer
The return of three Anglicizied natives people to their county or the beginning of a meeting with the modern world that will destroy them.
Director
The return of three Anglicizied natives people to their county or the beginning of a meeting with the modern world that will destroy them.
Writer
Movement within a painting, which begins with the savagery of a battle and comes to a halt in a rendition of a masterpiece of the 15th century – The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello.
Director
Movement within a painting, which begins with the savagery of a battle and comes to a halt in a rendition of a masterpiece of the 15th century – The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello.
Producer
Screenplay
A father is riding with his son through the forest. The sick child thinks he sees the Erlking, who both charms and frightens him. Based on Goethe's poem "Erlkönig" and the music of Franz Schubert and Franz Liszt.
Director
A father is riding with his son through the forest. The sick child thinks he sees the Erlking, who both charms and frightens him. Based on Goethe's poem "Erlkönig" and the music of Franz Schubert and Franz Liszt.
Director
Drama represented by the arrest of Jafar Panahi... until he is freed. Freedom for Jafar Panahi, and all imprisoned Iranian filmmakers.
Producer
Esta é a história de um rapaz diferente dos outros, que sonha em encontrar o seu lugar ao sol. Tal como a lua passa por diferentes fases, também o Kali tem de enfrentar os seus medos e demónios interiores para, no final, encontrar a passagem para a luz. Um dia ele vai desaparecer… ou talvez seja apenas mais uma fase de mudança.
Director
Through paintings that interact on the principle of Russian dolls, we are drawn along the swirling path of the thoughts of a pilgrim, a solitary walker.
Producer
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.
Director
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.
Director
Between a wave’s rhythm and the breath of a young woman in her sleep, some animated paintings go on modifying each other.
Director
Mike Judge's fourth entry into The Animation Show series.
Director
Descubra um palco que se transforma constantemente. Você sabe qual é o objetivo desse efeito? Mostrar o caos da vida moderna. Se você vir o curta do cineasta suíço Georges Schwizgebel, vai entender do que estamos falando. O que você está esperando?
Director
An animated film made in 2004 by the Swiss director Georges Schwizgebel. It is an adaptation of The Curious Case of Peter Shlemihl, written by German writer Adelbert von Chamisso 1813 novel.
Producer
A young girl, cutting her bread, cuts herself. She runs to the chemist but he has just been murdered.
Director
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
Director
A work of visual art that borrows from music the principles of the fugue, with the sudden flight of a man to his hotel room as its main theme. Where he dreams.
Director
A brief homage to Rodolphe Töpffer in a zigzag travelling inspired by the drawings of the Geneva author. The short trip starts with a stroller and ends with a reader.
Director
The story of a young deer deceived by appearances, or how a good deed in haste can be the cause of a tragedy.
Writer
‘La course à l’abîme’ is a depiction of the final ride into hell from ‘La Damnation de Faust’ (1846) by Hector Berlioz.
Director
‘La course à l’abîme’ is a depiction of the final ride into hell from ‘La Damnation de Faust’ (1846) by Hector Berlioz.
Editor
With the complicity of a painter, an elderly man recovers youth and manages to wander through paintings.
Animation
With the complicity of a painter, an elderly man recovers youth and manages to wander through paintings.
Cinematography
With the complicity of a painter, an elderly man recovers youth and manages to wander through paintings.
Director
With the complicity of a painter, an elderly man recovers youth and manages to wander through paintings.
Director
Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations on the standard countdown.
Director
A bicycle ride through the streets of Shanghai between spring and summer 1984, from the suburbs to the center of the city.
Writer
A waltz played with an accordion starts a short story about the running time.
Director
A waltz played with an accordion starts a short story about the running time.
Director
The slow construction of an image, to the rhythm of steps, ends when the monster meets his Bride.
Director
A descrition of a game between two teams where one of the teams change the rules.
Director
An animated short where no real story is being told and the perspective is constantly shifting.
Director
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.
Director
"The idea of a composite work, a puzzle and the ideal solution for clear minded lovers of parallel worlds that complement each other." (Robert Benayoun)
Director
The very first independent film by animator Georges Schwizgebel, which was made in 1969 as an episode in the anthology film "Patchwork". Along with Schwizgebel, "Patchwork" included the talents of filmmakers Claude Luyet, Daniel Suter, Gerald Poussin and Manuel Otero. "Pirouette" combines a simple drawing of a figure with photographs, cut-outs from magazines and samples of cloth. A prominent motif of this collage mix is a drawn male face slightly inspired by pop-art.
