Animac 2024 at CCCB

Animac presents in Barcelona the new features and contents of the 28th International Animation Film Festival of Catalonia, which will be held in Lleida from 15 to 18 February, this year with the slogan "Diversity". Animac 2024 will celebrate diversity across the entire spectrum of animated manifestations, with a variety of gender identities, sexual orientations and physical and cognitive abilities.

We will be joined by Swiss animator Georges Schwizgebel, Animac 2022 honorary prize winner and one of the great masters of European animation. An artisan of fluidity, he has found imaginative solutions to create calculated visual games and transitions between scenes, using camera movements that would be physically impossible without the art of animation. This original and virtuoso style of narrating and animating through varied and plastic techniques has made him a benchmark in international animation. His work combines hand drawing and acrylic painting on acetate with a strong experimental and colourist intention, heir to the post-impressionist artistic movements. Schwizgebel will share with us the keys to his career of more than 50 years as a director and animator and also his creative process with materials from his works, including the most recent D'une peinture... à l'autre.

Programme

19:00 h | Animac 2024 presentation

The festival's director, Carolina López, presents the contents of the 28th edition of Animac.

19.30 h | Masterclass with Georges Schwizgebel

This master of animation will show us his creative process with materials and fragments of his films. He will also screen the short films ZigZag, Jeu and his latest work, D'une peinture... à l'autre, an immersion in art through two paintings on the same subject created half a century apart.

Animac 2024 at the CCCB is a non-profit cultural activity organised by Lleida City Council, with the support of the ICEC – Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals, the ICAA – Instituto de la Cinematografía y las Artes Audiovisuales and Filmin.