JEU

This dialogue-free experimental animated short is yet another highly distinctive work by pioneering experimental animation director Georges Schwizgebel. Within these few minutes of light and shadow, the film employs a hand-drawn poster-style brushwork to deconstruct and reconstruct everything in the surrounding world. In extreme close-ups, numbers are broken down into individual strokes, only to reassemble into multiple identical entities in extreme long shots; a boy running while playing handball, a symphony orchestra performing—time and space shift with seemingly no connection yet miraculously intertwined. All these flowing images are so smooth and natural, delivering an intense sense of cinematography and spatial awareness. Another major feature of this film is its strong musicality. Despite the absence of dialogue, following the rise and fall of the background score, we seem to be drawn into the dazzling, trans-temporal world Georges has constructed for us.