Name Georges Schwizgebel Role Film director | Spouse Yaping Wang Children Louis Schwizgebel-Wang | |
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Movies The Man with No Shadow, Play, The Year of the Deer Awards Genie Award for Best Animated Short Similar Claude Barras, Jane Aaron, Skip Battaglia | ||
L homme sans ombre georges schwizgebel 2004
Georges Schwizgebel (born 28 September 1944 in Reconvilier, Switzerland) is a Swiss animation film director whose paint-on-glass-animated 2004 film L'Homme sans ombre (The Man With No Shadow) won various awards.
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- L homme sans ombre georges schwizgebel 2004
- Zig zag a short film by georges schwizgebel hd
- Biography
- Selected filmography
- References
Zig zag a short film by georges schwizgebel hd
Biography
Schwizgebel was born on 28 September 1944 in Reconvilier, Canton of Berne (Jura bernois), in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. From 1960-65 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts et des Arts Décoratifs at Geneva. In 1971 he founded Studio GDS where he produced and directed animated films as well as working in graphic design. From 1986 to 1995 he worked on retrospectives and exhibitions, among others, in Nuremberg, Stuttgart, Tokyo, Osaka, Paris and New York. In 2002 he was awarded Swiss Film Prize, Best Short Film for “La jeune fille et les nuages”. His film The Man With No Shadow was included in the Animation Show of Shows.
His 1995 short film, "L'année du daim", was used by YouTube user funkyfreshjive as an unofficial music video for the Boards of Canada song, "Mukinabaht" [sic].
His 2011 short film Romance, a co-production of the National Film Board of Canada and two Swiss studios, was one of five animated shorts nominated for the 32nd Genie Awards, where it won the Award for Best Animated Short.
His son is classical pianist Louis Schwizgebel-Wang (b. 1987).
Selected filmography
