Georges Schwizgebel

Collection Georges Schwizgebel (2023)

In his 40-year career since his first "author's film", "Le vol d'Icare" (1974), Schwizgebel has made hardly more than 15 short and medium-length films, mostly using the technique of animated acrylic painting. The brushstrokes and color effects give his wor ...

From One Painting... to Another (2023)

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 ...

Darwin's Notebook (2020)

The return of three Anglicizied natives people to their county or the beginning of a meeting with the modern world that will destroy them. ...

The Battle of San Romano (2017)

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. ...

The Musical Dragon (2017)

Erlking (2015)

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. ...

1/3/10 (2013)

Drama represented by the arrest of Jafar Panahi... until he is freed. Freedom for Jafar Panahi, and all imprisoned Iranian filmmakers. ...

Kali, the Little Vampire (2012)

This is the story about a boy not like the others that dreams about finding his place in the world. ...

Along the Way (2012)

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. ...

Romance (2011)

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. ...

Retouches (2008)

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

The Animation Show, Volume 4 (2008)

Mike Judge's fourth entry into The Animation Show series. ...

Animatou (2007)

A cat and mouse chase through five different animation techniques. ...

The Subject of the Picture (2007)

With the complicity of a painter, an elderly man recovers youth and manages to wander through paintings. ...

The Man Without a Shadow (2004)

A man exchanges his shadow for wealth, then, disappointed with the result, he has to be content with the seven-league boots, which will help him to find his way. ...

La chanson du pharmacien (2003)

A young girl, cutting her bread, cuts herself. She runs to the chemist but he has just been murdered. ...

The Young Girl and the Clouds (2001)

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 b ...

Fugue (1998)

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. ...

Zig Zag (1996)

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. ...

The Year of the Deer (1995)

The story of a young deer deceived by appearances, or how a good deed in haste can be the cause of a tragedy. ...

The Ride to the Abyss (1992)

'La course à l'abîme' is a depiction of the final ride into hell from 'La Damnation de Faust' (1846) by Hector Berlioz. ...

Academy Leader Variations (1987)

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. ...

78 Tours (1986)

A waltz played with an accordion starts a short story about the running time. ...

Nakounine (1986)

A bicycle ride through the streets of Shanghai between spring and summer 1984, from the suburbs to the center of the city. ...

The Ravishing of Frank N. Stein (1982)

The slow construction of an image, to the rhythm of steps, ends when the monster meets his Bride. ...

Off-side (1977)

A descrition of a game between two teams where one of the teams change the rules. ...

Perspectives (1975)

An animated short where no real story is being told and the perspective is constantly shifting. ...

The Flight of Icarus (1974)

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. ...

Patchwork (1970)

"The idea of a composite work, a puzzle and the ideal solution for clear minded lovers of parallel worlds that complement each other. ...

Pirouette (1969)

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 M ...

Des tableaux qui bougent (1990)

A portrait of Swiss animation director Georges Schwizgebel. ...