GEORGES SCHWIZGEBEL FUGUE (1998)

Director: Georges Schwizgebel

Year: 1998

Time: 7 mins

Music

Michèle Bokanowski - Composition

Gerard Frémy - Piano

Olivier Bokanowski - Piano

Virginie Simonean - Harp

Eye of Sound: The hand that draws the hand that draws the hand. Schwizgebel, creator of some of the most beautiful films in the history of animation, explores possibilities of recursive time and space in this structurally astonishing work. Worlds inside worlds, mirrors reflecting mirrors, windows into windows: dimensions are nested in one another, juxtaposed, merged, creating a cognitive vertigo that challenges our every day mundane categories. Similarly, Bokanowski's music revolves around loops, repeated piano and harp phrases that progress into one another, sometimes concealing its own inner movement. The art of the fugue, Hofstadter said, consists in crossing from one tonal level into the other by means of a twist - a "strange loop". Both musically and visually, like an audiovisual Moebius strip, Fugue builds upon such strange loops: we are constantly moving into other levels of reality though we seem to be running in circles.   

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