Direction: Georges Schwizgebel

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Georges Schwizgebel. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Romance (S)

2011 · Movie · 7 min. · Canada

Direction Georges Schwizgebel

Plot 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...

5.8

74 votes

5.8

74 votes

The Year of the Deer (S)

1995 · Movie · 5 min. · Switzerland

5.6

22 votes

5.6

22 votes

The Battle of San Romano (S)

2017 · Movie · 2 min. · Switzerland

Direction Georges Schwizgebel

Plot There’s a method to the madness of this 15th-century battle when Paolo Uccello’s masterpiece is cleverly animated by Georges Schwizgebel.

5.6

28 votes

5.6

28 votes

Retouches (S)

2008 · Movie · 6 min. · Switzerland

Direction Georges Schwizgebel

Plot Retouches features a series of repeated visual cycles, an animation painted on celluloid that examines transformation in the world around us. Georges Schwizgebel tries to grasp the ungraspable -- movement...

5.5

70 votes

5.5

70 votes

The Man with No Shadow (S)

2004 · Movie · 9 min. · Canada

Direction Georges Schwizgebel

Plot 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,...

5.5

184 votes

5.5

184 votes

78 Tours (S)

1986 · Movie · 4 min. · Switzerland

5.4

192 votes

5.4

192 votes

Hors-jeu (S)

1977 · Movie · 6 min. · Switzerland

5.4

28 votes

5.4

28 votes

Along The Way (S)

2012 · Movie · 4 min. · Switzerland

Direction Georges Schwizgebel

Plot 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.

5.3

54 votes

5.3

54 votes

D’une peinture à l’autre

2023 · Movie · 3 min. · Switzerland

Direction Georges Schwizgebel

Plot Two paintings that respond to each other, or the representation of a woman of color in the 19th and 20th centuries.

5.3

35 votes

5.3

35 votes

Perspectives (S)

1975 · Movie · 2 min. · Switzerland

5.2

29 votes

5.2

29 votes

La jeune fille et les nuages (S)

2001 · Movie · 4 min. · Switzerland

5.2

34 votes

5.2

34 votes

Erlkönig (S)

2015 · Movie · 5 min. · Switzerland

Direction Georges Schwizgebel

Plot Based on the poem by Goethe that inspired a famous piece by composer Franz Schubert, the new work by this renowned Swiss animator is a kaleidoscopic visual poem in one...

5.2

40 votes

5.2

40 votes

La course à l'abîme (S)

1992 · Movie · 5 min. · Switzerland

Direction Georges Schwizgebel

Plot A musical exploration of the world and all the creatures in it.

5.1

106 votes

5.1

106 votes

Fugue (S)

1998 · Movie · 7 min. · Switzerland

Direction Georges Schwizgebel

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

5.1

131 votes

5.1

131 votes

Le vol d'lcare (S)

1974 · Movie · 3 min. · Switzerland

5.1

30 votes

5.1

30 votes

Jeu (S)

2006 · Movie · 4 min. · Canada

Direction Georges Schwizgebel

Plot 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...

4.9

157 votes

4.9

157 votes

Academy Leader Variations (S)

1987 · Movie · 6 min. · United States

Direction Jane Aaron · Skip Battaglia · Guang Xi Chang · Xu Jingda

Plot Academy Leader Variations, a most avant-garde selection, combines the giddy talents of 20 animators from the U.S., Poland, Switzerland, and China. The animators present their fanciful versions of the "academy...

4.4

34 votes

4.4

34 votes

Zig Zag (S)

1996 · Movie · 1 min. · Switzerland

4.3

32 votes

4.3

32 votes

The 19th Annual Animation Show of Shows

2017 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Quentin Baillieux · Lia Bertels · Jac Clinch · Pete Docter

Plot It presents 16 animated shorts from around the world.

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