A celebration of the talent and legacy of animation.
Georges Schwizgebel is a classic animator, not in the sense of a classic animator such as Disney’s Nine Old Men who focuses on squash and stretch.
NO. Instead, Schwizgebel is an animator who animates in the classic concerns of animation: using space, time, dimensionality, and colour. His work is made in traditional) methods: with paint and pigment on cels, but his library of short films presents a much different world than that of the more traditional storytelling narrative path.
Georges' films have been shown at numerous festivals and won many major awards. It’s a daunting task to consider such a large, impressive body of work, but we’re going to sit down today with Georges and reflect on and acknowledge the auteur style that Georges Schwizgebel has developed and perfected over those 50 years.
Image Credit: © Georges Schwizgebel. All Rights Reserved.
SPEAKER
Georges Schwizgebel
Director // Independent
(The Little Prince, Coldplay: Hurts Like Heaven, SpongeBob SquarePants, Kung Fu Panda)
Georges Schwizgebel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts et des Arts Décoratifs in Geneva. In 1970 he founded Studio GDS with Claude Luyet et Daniel Suter, 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 2012, the artist donated some drawings on paper, paintings on cellulose (the customary technique of Schwizgebel) and pastels to the Swiss Film Archive, thus constituting the Georges Schwizgebel Papers.
MODERATOR
Keith Blackmore
Sr. Lecturer // Vancouver Film School
As an animation historian, Keith Blackmore has been a passionate cheerleader and a voice for all-things animated in the Vancouver area for almost 30 years. As one of the producers of the SPARK ANIMATION Festival and an active member of the local SIGGRAPH chapter, Keith has presented, interviewed and moderated at many festivals, local and national.
Since 1995, Blackmore has educated, entertained and inspired students in the history of animation and media studies at the Vancouver Film School. When he’s not reading, teaching or talking about animation, he’s watching it.
A celebration of the talent and legacy of animation.
Georges Schwizgebel is a classic animator, not in the sense of a classic animator such as Disney’s Nine Old Men who focuses on squash and stretch.
NO. Instead, Schwizgebel is an animator who animates in the classic concerns of animation: using space, time, dimensionality, and colour. His work is made in traditional) methods: with paint and pigment on cels, but his library of short films presents a much different world than that of the more traditional storytelling narrative path.
Georges' films have been shown at numerous festivals and won many major awards. It’s a daunting task to consider such a large, impressive body of work, but we’re going to sit down today with Georges and reflect on and acknowledge the auteur style that Georges Schwizgebel has developed and perfected over those 50 years.
Image Credit: © Georges Schwizgebel. All Rights Reserved.
SPEAKER
Georges Schwizgebel
Director // Independent
(The Little Prince, Coldplay: Hurts Like Heaven, SpongeBob SquarePants, Kung Fu Panda)
Georges Schwizgebel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts et des Arts Décoratifs in Geneva. In 1970 he founded Studio GDS with Claude Luyet et Daniel Suter, 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 2012, the artist donated some drawings on paper, paintings on cellulose (the customary technique of Schwizgebel) and pastels to the Swiss Film Archive, thus constituting the Georges Schwizgebel Papers.
MODERATOR
Keith Blackmore
Sr. Lecturer // Vancouver Film School
As an animation historian, Keith Blackmore has been a passionate cheerleader and a voice for all-things animated in the Vancouver area for almost 30 years. As one of the producers of the SPARK ANIMATION Festival and an active member of the local SIGGRAPH chapter, Keith has presented, interviewed and moderated at many festivals, local and national.
Since 1995, Blackmore has educated, entertained and inspired students in the history of animation and media studies at the Vancouver Film School. When he’s not reading, teaching or talking about animation, he’s watching it.
