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Retouches
20085 min 35 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Georges Schwizgebel
Production: Georges Schwizgebel (Studio GDS)Marc Bertrand (National Film Board of Canada)René Chénier
A co-production by Studio GDS, the National Film Board of Canada, Télévision Suisse Romande and ARTE France.
Animation filmmaker Georges Schwizgebel mesmerizes with visual acrobatics. Between waves on a shore and a sleeper breathing, he alters the balance of shapes in the world and plays with perception to grasp the fleeting movement of our lives. Retouches is a series of passing visions of perpetual motion. A film without words.
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Subject categories
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Perception
- Media Education > Film Animation
- English Language Arts > Journalism
Credits
- director
- Georges Schwizgebel
- producer
- Georges Schwizgebel
- Marc Bertrand
- executive producer
- René Chénier
Awards
- Chris Frayne Award for Best Animation- with a cash prize of $500 USDFilm Festival