Georges Schwizgebel

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

A musical exploration of the world and all the creatures in it. (imdb)

A visual art work that borrows the principles of fugue from music. A man, his dreams, a hotel room... (imdb)

A solitary man without a shadow rises from his desk, dons his hat, and leaves his apartment. He walks through a city to a large door, knocks, shows his invitation, and is admitted to a colorful scene. He walks through drawing rooms and gardens. He speaks with a man in a top hat who offers him a life of romance, but in that life there is betrayal. Is there a place in the world for our man without a shadow? (imdb)

Les Jeune Fille Et Les Nuages (The Young Girl and the Clouds) is a variation on the Cinderella story. The opening titles morph into thickly daubed, painted clouds and white birds created in the same style; from there to a beautiful young woman seated enigmatically in an pastoral landscape surrounded by the ever present white birds. (animationblog.org)

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

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

Against the background of Sergei Prokofiev's "Scherzo" from 'Piano Concerto, No. 2, Op.16', various visual games of movement and transformation are presented for the viewer. These visual games include: geometric figures dancing over and within a pool of water; people playing a symmetrical game of catch; building interiors changing shape; walls and hangings in an art gallery moving positions; and an audience watching a symphony orchestra perform. (imdb)

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

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

People and perspectives in movement. (Corona Cork Film Festival)

A description of a game between two teams where one of the teams change the rules. (Corona Cork Film Festival)

The slow construction of an image, to a rhythm of footsteps, ends with the meeting of the monster and his fiancé. Using a subjective vision, the viewer is literally in the position of the monster and crosses several rooms filled with objects and beings along the line of progression until emerging into the face of the loved one who lets off a cry of horror. (Animafest)

A bicycle trip through the streets of Shanghai between winter and summer, from the suburbs to the city centre. Some animations, discreet ones, are added to bring to life the still images by adding cellulose to the photos under the caption stand. (Animafest)

A brief homage to Rodolphe Töppfer in a zigzag traveling. (Corona Cork Film Festival)

A man sits next to a pretty woman on a plane. Once they are airborne, when the first bout of turbulence occurs, his mind takes off into a parallel reality. Desire imposes its own logic and thus an epic romance begins. Following the twists and turns of the second movement of Rachmaninov's Sonata No. 19, the animation's convolutions take us into the man's labyrinthine thoughts. Made using pencil and acrylic pastels. (Locarno Film Festival)

A 30-second clip made for the project Libérez Jafar Pahani in support of the Iranian director who was imprisoned in December 2010. (Cinémathèque Québécoise)

Through paintings that operate on similar principles to those of nested Russian dolls, we follow the spiralling train of thought of a peregrine, a solitary stroller. (imdb)

The return of three Anglicized native people to their country, or the beginning of an encounter with the modern world that will destroy them. (imdb)

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.