Peur(s) du Noir
Written by Jerry Kramsky, Michel Pirus, Romain Slocombe, Blutch, Charles Burns, Pierre di Scullo
Directed by Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre di Scullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, and Richard McGuire
France, 2007
The French animated horror anthology Peur(s] Du Noir, or Fear(s) of the Dark, is all atmosphere, though it uses this to great purpose.
The film is surprisingly immersive, even as an anthology of six shorts with different animation styles, two of which are used as buffers between the other four, played in sequence. This manner of editing is key to the film’s success, giving it a fresh and cohesive feel. The overarching theme of the universality and perpetuity of childhood fear (signified by its sophomoric yet still effectively simple title) doesn’t quite reach far or deep enough, though, leaving the film kind of stranded in merely watchable territory.
The first short deals with the fear of intimacy,...
Written by Jerry Kramsky, Michel Pirus, Romain Slocombe, Blutch, Charles Burns, Pierre di Scullo
Directed by Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre di Scullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, and Richard McGuire
France, 2007
The French animated horror anthology Peur(s] Du Noir, or Fear(s) of the Dark, is all atmosphere, though it uses this to great purpose.
The film is surprisingly immersive, even as an anthology of six shorts with different animation styles, two of which are used as buffers between the other four, played in sequence. This manner of editing is key to the film’s success, giving it a fresh and cohesive feel. The overarching theme of the universality and perpetuity of childhood fear (signified by its sophomoric yet still effectively simple title) doesn’t quite reach far or deep enough, though, leaving the film kind of stranded in merely watchable territory.
The first short deals with the fear of intimacy,...
- 10/19/2013
- by Simon Opitz
- SoundOnSight
Jack Sargeant, director of the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, has co-curated a photography show with Linsey Gosper that will have its opening at the Alaska Projects gallery in Sydney, Australia on Tuesday, August 21 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
While the show is untitled, it has been colloquially named “Atrocity Exhibitions” and will feature photographs by a number of underground filmmakers and other artists. The show will be on display from the 21st to the 26th.
Inspired by the experimental novel by J G Ballard The Atrocity Exhibition, this photography show will explore “the emergence of new manifestations of the psychosexual unconscious.” The images document unusual fetishes and unleashed urges that emerge “from the collusion of urban zones and economics, amputated urges and personal explorations of seduction and desire.”
Artists represented in the show include transgressive filmmaker Usama Alshaibi and underground icon Lydia Lunch, as well as work by Romain Slocombe,...
While the show is untitled, it has been colloquially named “Atrocity Exhibitions” and will feature photographs by a number of underground filmmakers and other artists. The show will be on display from the 21st to the 26th.
Inspired by the experimental novel by J G Ballard The Atrocity Exhibition, this photography show will explore “the emergence of new manifestations of the psychosexual unconscious.” The images document unusual fetishes and unleashed urges that emerge “from the collusion of urban zones and economics, amputated urges and personal explorations of seduction and desire.”
Artists represented in the show include transgressive filmmaker Usama Alshaibi and underground icon Lydia Lunch, as well as work by Romain Slocombe,...
- 8/14/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Chicago – Though graphic novels may read like great movie storyboards, they often fail to translate into compelling cinema. From “Sin City” to “Watchmen,” filmmakers have tried replicating graphic art with a reverence more suffocating than exhilarating. Images that reverberated with power on the page become coldly calculated on the big screen. No matter how tightly structured a film may be, it must give viewers the illusion of spontaneity. And there’s nothing more tiresome than a horror film in which all the scares feel telegraphed.
DVD Rating: 3.0/5.0
That’s the interesting challenge facing “Fear(s) of the Dark,” a compilation of short subjects from six of today’s most celebrated graphic artists. As an animation exercise, the film is consistently fascinating. Each artist’s approach to the cinematic medium is as distinctive as their trademark visual styles. Though their films are wildly different from each other, they all grapple with...
DVD Rating: 3.0/5.0
That’s the interesting challenge facing “Fear(s) of the Dark,” a compilation of short subjects from six of today’s most celebrated graphic artists. As an animation exercise, the film is consistently fascinating. Each artist’s approach to the cinematic medium is as distinctive as their trademark visual styles. Though their films are wildly different from each other, they all grapple with...
- 11/2/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
LONDON -- "Fear(s) of the Dark," a collaboration of graphic authors and comic artists, is the surprise addition to this year's RomeFilmFest, organizers said Thursday.
The movie will take out-of-competition slot in the Cinema 2007 section of the festival, which kicks off its second edition Oct. 18.
Organizers said the film, which has taken more than a year to make, involves work by such graphic authors and comic artists as Lorenzo Mattotti, Blutch and Charles Burns. It is produced by Valerie Schermann and Christophe Jankovic, the team behind the animated "U" and "Alice in the City".
"This year the RomeFilmFest offers an exceptional experience such as the integral presentation of the now-mythical 'Book of Dreams' by Federico Fellini," Cinema 2007 section chiefs Teresa Cavina and Giorgio Gosetti said.
"To this journey through the unconscious we are adding a highly original 'Book of Nightmares, ' uniting some of the most extraordinary 'pensmen' of contemporary drawing in a project rooted in the secret fears we all carry with us, from a child's fears of the dark to the adult who experiments with the thrills and chills of the night."
Co-directed by Blutch, Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Mattotti and Richard McGuire, "Fear(s)" is penned by Jerry Kramsky, Michel Pirus and Romain Slocombe and brought to the festival by Celluloid Dreams/Dreamachine.
The movie will take out-of-competition slot in the Cinema 2007 section of the festival, which kicks off its second edition Oct. 18.
Organizers said the film, which has taken more than a year to make, involves work by such graphic authors and comic artists as Lorenzo Mattotti, Blutch and Charles Burns. It is produced by Valerie Schermann and Christophe Jankovic, the team behind the animated "U" and "Alice in the City".
"This year the RomeFilmFest offers an exceptional experience such as the integral presentation of the now-mythical 'Book of Dreams' by Federico Fellini," Cinema 2007 section chiefs Teresa Cavina and Giorgio Gosetti said.
"To this journey through the unconscious we are adding a highly original 'Book of Nightmares, ' uniting some of the most extraordinary 'pensmen' of contemporary drawing in a project rooted in the secret fears we all carry with us, from a child's fears of the dark to the adult who experiments with the thrills and chills of the night."
Co-directed by Blutch, Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Mattotti and Richard McGuire, "Fear(s)" is penned by Jerry Kramsky, Michel Pirus and Romain Slocombe and brought to the festival by Celluloid Dreams/Dreamachine.
- 10/12/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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