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Ariadne’s Thread

Director:
Claude Luyet
Country:
Switzerland
year: 2016
Running Time:
13
Technique:
2D computer
Category:
Short film [10 to 45 min]
Producer:
Claude Luyet
Distributor:
Mikhal Bak
The program:

Synopsis

Ariadne is playing with a ball. She is interrupted, as her mother calls her inside. She loses her ball, along with her childhood. The 20th Century and Ariadne‘s life plays out on her balcony. As Ariadne nears the end of her life, she regains her lost childhood.

Director's BIO

Claude Luyet studied graphic design in the 1960’s and then founded Studio GDS in 1970, with Georges Schwizgebel et Daniel Suter, in order to produce commissioned films and personal short films.
Filmography: Patchwork (1970, 18’), Ricochet (1973, 5’30), Marché noir (1977, 2’40), Questions d’optiques (1986, 8’), Academy Leader Variation (1987, 6’30), Le Carré de lumière (1992, 5’), Robert Creep, une vie de chien (1994, 26’), Cyclades (1996, 25’), Rush (2004, 3’), Animatou (2007, 5’36).

Contacts

c.luyet@studio-gds.ch