Georges Schwizgebel

A portrait of Swiss animation director Georges Schwizgebel.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

The story of Cinderella is modernised. Cinderella dreams of clouds and ends up fleeing by plane with her Prince Charming. The image is animated...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

A visual and musical game which builds and destroys itself according to the vivacious rhythm of Serge Prokofiev’s Scherzo to Piano Concerto No....

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A cat and mouse chase through five different animation techniques.

A cat and mouse chase through five different animation techniques.

A cat and mouse chase through five different animation techniques.

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

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

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...

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,...

Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations...

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

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...

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 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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

The very first independent film by animator Georges Schwizgebel, which was made in 1969 as an episode in the anthology film "Patchwork". Along with...