Movement within a painting, which begins with the savagery of a battle and comes to a halt in a rendition of a masterpiece of the 15th century – The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello.

The Battle of San Romano

The film begins with a part of the title disappearing through a cut in its center, cutting through the middle and producing a movement from right to left, revealing a room occupied by a child and her black maid. This is followed by an uninterrupted series of animated images, a kind of fleeting moment or painting that continually transforms, until it becomes a copy of Edouard Manet’s Olympia (1863).  The second part begins with the title’s next part, which disappears just like the first one, setting in motion a reverse movement, from left to right, where images related to the first part, out of focus or from other points of view, arrive, ending with the reproduction of Félix Vallotton’s La Blanche et la Noire (1913).

From One Painting To Another

Georges Schwizgebel's films are among the classics of contemporary animation. "The fluidity of his metamorphoses make him a 'master of the canvas'. In his film-pictures, the wide sweeping movements that he imparts to his camera transcend all the limits of space and time with astonishing continuity". These were the words of the jury when it awarded the Prix d'honneur du cinéma suisse to Georges Schwizgebel in 2018. A collection of 18 poetic works.