Fear(s) of the Dark

Section: French Shoals


Peur(s) do Noir
France, 2007

Dir.: Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire
Scr.: Blutch, Charles Burns, Pierre Di Sciullo, Jerry Kramski, Richard McGuire, Michel Pirus, Romain Slocombe
Editor: Céline Kélépikis
Music: Laurent Perez
Format: 35 mm
Colour
85 mins
Contact: Celluloid Dreams

Ambitious animation film in which several of the best of today's illustrators and comic-strip artists under the inspired supervision of Etienne Robial, artistic director of Canal+ take out their imagination and fabulous technique - often in black and white - on the theme of fear. Here everything comes down to fears - real or imaginary fears and primaeval fears of the dark, often resembling the tales of William Burroughs, the body horror shocks of David Cronenberg, J-horror and the surreal panic of David Lynch. The films made use of what is known as the Animatic technique, in which storyboards form the basis for complex computer calculations.

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