L'Enfer (Short film, 2019) Mature

The director Henri Clouzot tried to make a film called L'Enfer in 1964, a massively ambitious and eventually totally doomed undertaking, the production collapsed after hours of repetitive experimental screen testing, tensions between actors and crew and Clouzot's own eventual heart attack. The film's plot centered on a jealous husband's complete mental collapse into deluded, paranoid fantasy. The descent into madness that the film looked to depict seemed like it had seeped into its production.

This film is an exploration of these ideas. It sits adjacent to L'Appel Du Vide so we gave it the French title so they can be sisters? Maybe we'll eventually make them into a THE VOID series where we explore the connections between emotion and desire? Who knows.

The pull of the void, the car crash, looking over the edge at the huge drop below, the thing that you know will hurt you but you can't look away from we're drawn to these things. Eroticising shame, guilt, discomfort and jealousy can be an important part of taking control of it.