Fear

1983 / France / French / Color / 6 min / Video

Text: Sylvie Quesemand
Photography: Richard Copans
Editing: Francine Sandberg
Music: Barre Phillips
Sound: François de Morand
Cast: Franck Oger, François Laurent
Producer: Martine Durand
Production Company: TF1

The film was shot for the television series “Saga-Un magagine de la connaissance” (A Magazine of Knowledge, third series)

“I take the Laure character in As Fast as You Can and do this short film for Fear, which was just a commission from a scientific journal. It was a pilot that INA was trying to sell to FR3. It was five-to-seven minute movies, each one about a different scientific subject. Mine was fear, other people had electricity . . . Right away I said, ‘Great. I’ve got a 45 minutes movie, Birth. I’ve got an hour-long movie, As Fast as You Can. And now Fear is going to be the footnote to that,’ because it really is around fear—what I think these people are seeing as they see themselves in the mirror. That way of thinking about the commissions was extremely liberating.”

—Robert Kramer (Festival Cinema Giovani 1997)