Fear(s) of the Dark: Special Screening

Fear(s) of the Dark, the highly anticipated, beautifully scary, animated portmanteau, will premiere at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, October 21, at Landmark's Embarcadero Center Cinema, as an SFFS Special Screening and warm-up to the San Francisco International Animation Festival.

Co-director Charles Burns is expected to attend the screening and to participate in a Q+A.

Spiders' legs brushing against naked skin. Unexplained noises in the dark.

A hypodermic needle getting closer and closer. A dead thing trapped in a bottle of formaldehyde. A growling dog running and on the hunt.

A big empty house creaking....Six amazing graphic artists and cartoonists lend their distinctive hands to stylize these dark nightmares with no color, only black, white, and gray.

With ultrarealistic techniques now possible, it is important to remember that animation is first and foremost art.

Whether slick or rough, paint or pencil, or even originating from a computer, an image is carefully hand designed for every single frame of film.

It is the ultimate work of a creator, personally using the drawn frame, chiaroscuro contrast, the angle of the light, and the line movement to tell a story.

But it is also the duration of a shot, and what is and isn't heard.

It is the style of the art and the art of the storytelling that make Fear(s) of the Dark so wonderful.

more: sffs.org/events/films/film_fears_of_the_dark.html (107)

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