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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.

The viewer takes the perspective of Frankenstein's monster, waking up in a lab and moving through an alienating series of rooms, towards an unknown goal.

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

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

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?

A father rides with his son through the forest. The sick child thinks he sees the Erlking who both charms and frightens him.

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

The day begins. Characters live their lives, animals theirs, a gentleman takes off his hat, a lady smokes a cigarette and the sun sets.

The "king" secretly dreams of showing his ass to his subjects, and they do just that. Dominant and dominated share the same fantasy of social rites. A carnivalesque temptation whose hallmark is not to touch the reality of social relations, but only to play on their reversal.

A person is going to bed, he is disturbed by a noise which puts him to sleep. His dream is disturbed by other noises.

A fast way to discover what you lose slowly each day.

A child plays with her ball and interrupted, loses hold of it and an adventure of life unfolds.

A nostalgic serviceman battling against the recruits of today.

A short film, with the movements of the hurried movements of an animated character.

A metaphorical tale about the power of animal instinct and how senseless is to tame nature.

Presents a cat and mouse chase through five different animation techniques.

An immersion into art through two paintings on the same subject created half a century apart.

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 LED lights.

Georges Schwizgebel's films are among the classics of contemporary animation. "The fluidity of his metamorphoses make him a 'master of the canvas'. In his film-pictures, the wide sweeping movements that he imparts to his camera transcend all the limits of space and time with astonishing continuity". These were the words of the jury when it awarded the Prix d'honneur du cinéma suisse to Georges Schwizgebel in 2018. A collection of 18 poetic works.

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

A series of repeated and transforming visual cycles, an animation painted on celluloid that examines transformation in the world around us.

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