Marina Rosset: The Enchanting Power of Animation
Schedule
Sunday, January 26, 2025
Run Time: 70min
Followed by a Q&A with Marina Rosset
This program of shorts puts the spotlight on the work of award-winning Swiss filmmaker and editor Marina Rosset, along with selected works from her contemporaries. A mid-career artist, Rosset has created poetic, magical and stunningly beautiful films. Together, the program speaks to the originality of Rosset’s work and the wealth of contemporary Swiss animation.
Following the screening, Marina Rosset will discuss her work and the role of Swiss animation with Biljana Labovic.
Part of Animation First’s focus on Swiss Animation
The Queens of the Foxes / La reine des renards
Marina Rosset, 2022, Switzerland, 9 min
In French with English subtitles
La fille aux feuilles
Marina Rosset, 2013, Switzerland, 6 min
Without dialogue or commentary
The Bear’s Hand / La main de l’ours
Marina Rosset, 2008, Switzerland, 5 min
Without dialogue or commentary
Laterarius
Marina Rosset, 2010, Switzerland, 4 min
Without dialogue or commentary
Bottoobahtoh / Botteoubateau
Marina Rosset, 2007, Switzerland, 3 min
Without dialogue or commentary
After the Cat / Après le chat
Marina Rosset, 2005, Switzerland, 4 min
Without dialogue or commentary
November
Marina Rosset, 2007, Switzerland, 1 min
Without dialogue or commentary
Last Minute
Špela Čadež, Marina Rosset, 2010, Slovenia, 2 min
Without dialogue or commentary
Duck / Canard
Elie Chapuis, 2023, Switzerland, Belgium, 9 min
Without dialogue or commentary
Average Happiness
Maja Gehrig, 2019, Switzerland, 7 min
Without dialogue or commentary
Au Revoir Balthazar
Rafael Sommerhalder, 2016, Switzerland, 9 min
Without dialogue or commentary
Greylands / Die Graue March
Charlotte Waltert, Alvaro Schoeck, 2023, Switzerland, 12 min
In Swiss German
This program will be preceded by a 20-second bumper film created by Brassart-MOPA students.
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Marina Rosset
Born in 1984 in Lausanne, SZ, Marina Rosset studied film at the École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de la Cambre in Brussels and graduated from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. She has made several short films, including Après le chat (2005), Botteoubateau (2007), Laterarius (2010), La fille aux feuilles (2014) which screened at the Locarno Film Festival, and La Reine des Renards (2022). Rosset is also a film editor. In that capacity she worked on several short films and on the feature My Life as a Zucchini (2016).
Biljana Labovic
Biljana is an award-winning animation professional based in New York. In her current role as an Animation Director at TED-Ed, she has been directing short animated educational videos and ensuring the animation quality of all TED-Ed content for over a decade. Her professional animation journey began in 1999 with Bill Plympton, where she initially started by hand-painting cells on a feature film Mutant Aliens. Biljana played a pivotal role in transitioning the studio to digital production, producing Bill’s Academy Award-nominated “Guard Dog,” along with many other short films and features.
Biljana’s other noteworthy collaborations include an animated segment in the Academy Award-winning documentary short film “Freeheld” by Cynthia Wade, as well as humble contributions to films by Faith and Emily Hubley, including Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Besides her production work, Biljana had also enjoyed teaching animation at the School of Visual Arts.
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