Synopsis:
Why bother dragging around one’s shadow? A man agrees to a pact with a magician and swaps his shadow for riches. He soon discovers that the absence of a shadow can be a humiliating handicap. After fleeing to the far corners of the earth, he ends up in Bali, in a theatre of shadow puppets, where he discovers the true worth of shadows.
- Director:
- Georges Schwizgebel
- Year:
- 2004
- Country:
- Switzerland, Canada
- Running time:
- 10 min.
- Technique:
- 2D Animation, Other
- Original title:
- L'homme sans ombre
- Production type:
- Professional
- Music composer:
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- Sound designers:
- Olivier Calvert, Serge Boivin
- Audience:
- Adults
- Festival selections:
- Animafest Zagreb – World Festival of Animated Film
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Play
2006 16+ 4 min
by Georges Schwizgebel
A visual and musical game which builds and destroys itself according to the vivacious rhythm of Serge Prokofiev’s Scherzo to Piano Concerto No. 2.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Romance
2011 16+ 7 min
by Georges Schwizgebel
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. This animated film by Georges Schwizgebel masterfully transports us into a swirling world. Set to the twists and turns of a Rachmaninoff scherzo, Romance exuberantly marries music and movement, erasing the boundary between dreams and reality.
- Drama
- Romance
- Experimental
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The Battle of San Romano
2017 Adults 2 min
by Georges Schwizgebel
A 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.
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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I’ll Be Your Kettle
2021 Adults 9 min
by Tobias Rud
When a woman finds her partner infatuated with their kettle, she is thrown into a desperate journey of self-transformation to try and keep the relationship going.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragicomedy
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Megamall
2020 Adults 4 min
by Aline Schoch
In a world of escalators, figures pursue their desire to consume in a given rhythm. One of the figures is sucked in at the end of an escalator and finds itself in a quiet, weightless room, where it joins the playing figures. Meanwhile, the escalator world is thrown into confusion by a chips-mad dog. When the dog is also sucked in by an escalator, a power struggle between the two worlds begins.
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No Objects
2019 Adults 7 min
by Moïa Jobin-Paré
Combining hands-on techniques with digital and analog technologies, No Objects transfigures forms of expression, turning photographs into etchings and sound into motion. An ode to touch in which every gesture is magnified and the image can be heard, the film offers both a bracing and contemplative meditation on the tactile world.
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500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art
2007 16+ 3 min
by Philip Scott Johnson
This animation was created in April 2007 using a program called Abrosoft Fantamorph. The cost at the time was 30 US dollars. My thought at the time was rather than creating simple humorous morphs, that were common at the time, why not instead create an artistic film that loops multiple animations together and tells the story of art over time.
- Non-narrative
- Experimental
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Queens Of The Stone Age – Go With The Flow (Official Music Video)
2003 Adults 3 min
by Shynola
Queens of the Stone Age performs in the music video “Go with the Flow” from the album “Songs for the Deaf” recorded for Polydor Records. The features the band playing on the back of a Chevrolet pickup truck driving down a desert highway. Visually, the band is rendered in black and white against a red background.
- Music Videos
- Experimental
- Non-narrative
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Dead Water
2001 Adults 5 min
by Tibor Bánóczki
The protagonist of this psycho-thriller evolving out of picturesque paintings is a crazed station-master living in a dull village in the middle of nowhere.
- Drama
- Experimental
- Tragedy
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Eminem & Snoop Dogg – From The D 2 The LBC [Official Music Video]
2022 Adults 4 min
by Joe Burrascano, James Larese
Eminem & Snoop Dogg – From The D 2 The LBC
- Music video
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Homebird
2021 Adults 10 min
by Ewa Smyk
Struggling to make it in a big city, a young artist finds herself retreating into the rose-tinted memories of the village she left behind.
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Bear with Me
2020 16+ 5 min
by Daphna Awadish
A short animated documentary on immigrants who left their home and crossed borders for love.
- Drama
- Documentary
- Experimental
- Making of