animation.ch: Vision and Versatility in Swiss Animated Film

by Christian Gasser

The only representative reference work on contemporary Swiss animated film.
 
Never before have so many animated films been made in Switzerland, and never before have they been so internationally successful as today. animation.ch illuminates the development of the Swiss animated film in the last twenty years, considers the present situation and discusses future perspectives.At the center of animation.ch  stand conversations with twenty film-makers, who represent the originality and versatility of the Swiss animated film, from the short independent film to television series and feature films but also including the applications of animation in the fine arts and in advertising.
Anne Baillod, Claude Barras, François Chalet, Isabelle Favez, Adrian Flückiger, Maja Gehrig, Claudius Gentinetta, Samuel und Frédéric Guillaume, Zoltan Horvath, Jadwiga Kowalska, Claude Luyet, Yves Netzhammer, Jonas Raeber, Dustin Rees, Izabela Rieben, Marina Rosset, Georges Schwizgebel, Ted Sieger, Rafael Sommerhalder, Basil Vogt.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published April 16, 2012