Sand Animations of Giselle & Nag Ansorge (1967-1991)

Gisèle Dietrich was born on 9 February 1923 in the French Jura. Although she wouild have preferred to study art, she studied pharmacy in Lausanne. She finished her studies in 1948.

Ernest Ansorge was born in Lausanne on 28 February 1925. He hated his first name, choosing instead the nickname Nag, which originated from his early days as a boy scout. Nag studied at Lausanne's Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire and graduated as an engineer in 1951.

Nag met Gisèle and the couple became increasingly interested in the cinema. They decided to make marionette films after seeing Jiri Trnka's famous Czech Legends.The couple married and settled in Zurich in 1952, where Nag was already working as a mechanical engineer. Zurich at the time was a hub of film creation in Switzerland; this influenced the Ansorges' decision to enter film making.

Nag spent time working with mental patients at Cery Hospital between 1961 and 1981. The patients worked on both animated and live films with him. This contact provided the couple with much of their unique stream of conscious, surreal subject matter.



Films included in this compilation are:

1969: Fantasmatic (16mm black and white 8')

1970: Let's Land on the moon (35mm black and white 3')

1975: The Chameleon Cat (35mm colour 12')

1975-1976: Smile 1,2,3 (35mm colour 6')

1977: Anima (16mm colour 4')

1982: Das Veilchen (16mm colour 3')

1984: The Woolen Children (16mm colour 5')

1988: The Boy who Stole the Moon (35mm black and white 7')

1991: Sabbath (35mm colour 10')



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