Solothurn Film Festival with special program on animated film
Published: Tuesday, Nov 14th 2023, 16:00
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The 59th Solothurn Film Festival is dedicating a special program to animated film. "Rencontre" is the name of the retrospective, which honors three pioneers of animated film.
Graphic artists and filmmakers Daniel Suter, Georges Schwizgebel and Claude Luyet founded Studio GDS over 50 years ago in a backyard in the Carouge district of Geneva. Since then, the three directors have made over 40 animated short films using a variety of techniques.
These three filmmakers will now be honored with a retrospective at the 59th Solothurn Film Festival (January 17 to 24), as the film festival announced on Tuesday. The organizers want to show that animated film is more than just cartoons. "They are often philosophical or parable-like works made up of thousands of individual drawings, moving figures or digital animations", the press release states.
The program includes five one-hour short film programs and the feature-length film "Gwen et le livre de sable" (1985) by Jean-François Laguionie, in which Claude Luyet participated. A film music concert with the pianist Louis Schwizgebel, son of Georges Schwizgebel, and an exhibition of drawings by Daniel Suter are also planned. The three honorees will be present at the Film Days.
The organizers of the Solothurn Film Festival point out that animated film has a tradition in French-speaking Switzerland in particular, "perhaps also stimulated by the popularity of French comics". And: in 2016, the French-speaking Swiss animated film "Ma vie de courgette" by Claude Barras was nominated for an Oscar.
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