The Flight of Icarus

Country: SWITZERLAND Year: 1974 Duration: 3 mins.

Sinopsys: A pointillist musical illustration of the tale of Icarus wishing to imitate the birds right up to burning his wings close to the sun.

Credits:

Direction: Georges Schwizgebel

Off-Side

Country: SWITZERLAND Year: 1977 Duration: 6 mins.

Sinopsys: Description of a game in which one of the two teams changes the rules to its advantage. Several sports are mentioned in the film, while the players, whose portrayal suggests a low-angled light, move from one sport to another via successive metamorphoses.

Credits:

Direction: Georges Schwizgebel

78 R.P.M.

Country: SWITZERLAND Year: 1985 Duration: 4 mins.

Sinopsys: A subjective camera and a fixed framing alternate to an accordion waltz which triggers a short story recalling the passing of time. The entire film is based on the graphic notion of circles and rings. From a cup of coffee to children's games passing through a spiral staircase. The camera itself whirls round following the general aesthetics.

Credits:

Direction: Georges Schwizgebel

The Ride to the Abyss

Country: SWITZERLAND Year: 1992 Duration: 5 mins.

Sinopsys: At an average cycle of six seconds, an animated painting illustrates a fragment of an opera. The idea of the film was to use just 144 drawings for a fairly long film, the 144 immense cellulose drawings are seen only partially via a camera movement travelling spirally from the edges to the centre, finally to discover the entire scene and to unveil the artifice.

Credits:

Direction: Georges Schwizgebel

Fugue

Country: SWITZERLAND Year: 1998 Duration: 7 mins.

Sinopsys: A person dozing in a hotel room allows himself to be invaded by memories which form an escape expressed in drawings. The film is one of the most complex by Georges Schwizgebel. The use of vivid colours, the counterpoint of the interwoven images, the animation of impossible geometric figures combined with a contemporary sound tape make this film one of the best and most interesting in the author's filmography.

Credits:

Direction: Georges Schwizgebel

The Young Girl and the Clouds

Country: SWITZERLAND Year: 2000 Duration: 5 mins.

Sinopsys: 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.

Credits:

Direction: Georges Schwizgebel

The Man Without a Shadow

Country: SWITZERLAND Year: 2004 Duration: 10 mins.

Sinopsys: A man exchanges his shadow for richness. Disillusioned, he has to be content with seven-league boots. The film benefits from the quality of the NFB production with rich sound effects. Schwizgebel installs the mysterious atmosphere with one of the longest and most beautiful opening sequences of his career. The use of metamorphoses makes it possible to carry out semantic shortcuts in order to deliver the story.

Credits:

Direction: Georges Schwizgebel

Play

Country: SWITZERLAND Year: 2006 Duration: 4 mins.

Sinopsys: From the detailed account announcing the beginning to the rigid appearance of the word END, Jeu provokes a magnificent vertigo with its uninterrupted running, full of surprises. A furious race towards final immobilisation, like a metaphor of modern restlessness, the illustration of a world resting on a succession of forms which become distorted to deceive the senses again and again in a pirouetting and playful choreography.

Credits:

Direction: Georges Schwizgebel

Retouches

Country: SWITZERLAND, CANADA Year: 2008 Duration: 6 mins.

Sinopsys: Between a wave’s rhythm and the breath of a young woman in her sleep, some animated paintings go on modifying each other.

Credits:

Direction: Georges Schwizgebel

Romance

Country: SWITZERLAND Year: 2011 Duration: 7 mins.

Sinopsys: A casual meeting on a plane and watching a movie turns into a virtual romance. 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. This animated film by Georges Schwizgebel masterfully transports us into a swirling world. Set to the twists and turns of a Rachmaninoff scherzo, Romanceexuberantly marries music and movement, erasing the boundary between dreams and reality.

Credits:

Direction: Georges Schwizgebel

Along the Way

Country: SWITZERLAND Year: 2012 Duration: 5 mins.

Sinopsys: 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.

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Direction: Georges Schwizgebel

The Battle of San Romano

Country: SWITZERLAND Year: 2017 Duration: 2 mins.

Sinopsys: 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.

Credits:

Direction: Georges Schwizgebel

Darwin's Notebook

Country: SWITZERLAND Year: 2020 Duration: 9 mins.

Sinopsys: The return of three Anglicized native people to their country or the beginning of a meeting with the modern world that will destroy them.

Credits:

Direction: Georges Schwizgebel