PROGRAM
Hiroshima Animation Academy ＆ Meeting
SCHEDULE
Aug 23rd (Sun) 14:00～ @JMS Aster Plaza Large Meeting Room
Program Overview
This lecture features the Swiss animation filmmaker Georges Schwizgebel, who is visiting the festival as the Jury President of HAS2026, as he discusses his own animation production methodologies. In the lecture, he will explore the relationships between animation and various themes of particular interest to him, including music, repetition, spatial movement, and metamorphosis.
Guest
Speaker：Georges Schwizgebel
Moderator: To be Announced
The animation director and producer Georges Schwizgebel (1944) has created a remarkably original body of work. His films-whose technical execution is always masterful-are marked by a playful approach to narrative, spectacular formalism and the intermingling of visuals and music. His first film, The Flyght of Icarus (1974) begins a career that currently numbers 22 films, which have gone to win numerous awards at prestigious international festivals (such as Cannes, Berlin, Chicago, Locarno, Hiroshima, Stuttgart and Ottawa. The Ride to the Abyss (1992) is regularly cited as one of the finest animated films of all time. In 2017 Georges Schwizgebel receives the Honorary Cristal of Annecy festival, in 2018 the Swiss film award of Honor, and becomes a member of the Oscar’s academy, in 2019 he was appointed officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (France) and receives the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Zagreb Animafest 2020, and get the Grand Prix in HAS 2022 with Darwin’s Notebook.