FILMS   SEMINARS     SPONSORS     SCHEDULE     TICKETING     VENUES     CONTACT Fear(s) of the Dark Director: Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire Screenplay: Jerry Kramsky, Michel Pirus, Romain Slocombe, Blutch, Charles Burns, Pierre Di Sciullo Cast: Aure Atika, Guillaume Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Louisa Pili, François Creton, Christian Hecq, Arthur H Producers: Valérie Schermann, Christophe Jankovic, Vincent Tavier, Philippe Kauffman Distributor: Celluloid Dreams Original Music: René Aubry, Boris Gronemberger, Laurent Perez del Mar, George Van Dam -Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2008 -Rome Film Festival 2007 -PiFan 2008 BERNI'S DOLL Lowly factory employee Berni, attempts to overcome his loneliness by buying a woman made up of spare parts from developing countries. Director: Yann J. Length:12 mins Format: 35mm, B/W Year: 2007 Country: France Spiders' legs brushing against naked skin… Unexplainable noises heard at night in a dark bedroom… A big empty house where you feel a presence… A hypodermic needle getting closer and closer… A dead thing trapped in a bottle of formaldehyde… A huge growling dog, baring its teeth and staring… So many scary moments we have experienced at some point in our lives – like the craftsmen of this journey straight to the land of fear. Different black-and-white animation techniques tell several scary stories. There's a story of a teenage boy who meets the wrong girl. Another tale deals with a small community where people disappear and are never seen again. Then there's the narrative of a little Japanese girl who suffers from horrible nightmares followed by a tale where a man doesn't get the rest he hoped for in an old not-so-abandoned house. These stories are connected by the story about a man with a devilish smile and four enormous dogs from hell and by a woman's monologue about her fears. Six of the world’s hottest graphic artists and cartoonists, including renowned artist Charles Burns, have breathed life into their nightmares, bleeding away colour only to retain the starkness of light and the pitch black of shadows. Visual styles vary just as widely, from pencil drawings to what appears to be Flash animation, to stark, hard edged, high contrast work and flowing geometric shapes. Their intertwined stories make up an unprecedented epic where phobias, disgust and nightmares come to life and reveal Fear at its most naked and intense… << BACK