Georges Schwizgebel

Georges Schwizgebel is a Swiss animation film director whose paint-on-glass-animated 2004 film L’Homme sans ombre (The Man With No Shadow) won various awards. Schwizgebel was born on 28 September 1944 in Bern and lived in Renconvillier in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. From 1960-65 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts et des Arts Décoratifs at Geneva. In 1971 he founded Studio GDS 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 2002 he was awarded Swiss Film Prize, Best Short Film for “La jeune fille et les nuages”. His film, The Man With No Shadow was included in the Animation Show of Shows. —Wikipedia