Sand animation exhibition
The Alexis Forel Museum invites visitors to discover the fascinating art of sand animation.
Create films with salt, ground coffee, earth, spices, or better still, sand. This is the challenge taken up by Gisèle and Nag Ansorge, a couple of filmmakers from the canton of Vaud who, as early as the 1960s, were making short animated films with quartz sand in their studio in Étagnières. While the Ansorge's work has received international acclaim and is part of the cultural history of French-speaking Switzerland, it is little known to the public today. The Grains de folie exhibition invites to discover the career and world of Gisèle and Nag Ansorge through archive documents loaned by the Cinémathèque suisse and screenings of their recently restored films.
And that's not all! In order to bring heritage and contemporary creation into dialogue, the exhibition also takes the curious to meet today's artists and filmmakers - Christina Benz, Clémence Bouchereau, Dode Lambert, Anne-Sophie Girault, Danièle Mussard and Nara Normande - who, with great imagination and finesse, appropriate, reinvent and decline the sand technique.
Between tradition and modernity, past and present, Grains de folie reveals all the richness and poetry of sand, a material as familiar as it is elusive.
Program of events
Throughout the exhibition, cinema evenings with film & short film screenings, an artistic performance with Christina Benz, workshops for young audiences, film-making and musical readings are organized.
See the Musée Forel website for the full program.
