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The most horrific scenes can take place in living rooms and bedrooms. Countless films over a hundred years of history have clearly shown us that. In accordance with honoured scenario traditions, many films contain a couple of sequences that provide the sniggering public with a shot of adrenalin. The horror genre attempts to produce non-stop hair-raising with artificial exaggeration. There are people who experience this spontaneously on a regular basis. To discover that it was all ‘only just’ a nightmare when you are lying bathed in sweat is small comfort. In this accurately titled tape, Labrecque depicts an archetypal fear. It is a variation of a dream which also reflects a laboratory set up where a person with sleeping difficulties is being checked on by a security camera in the ceiling. You are looking at yourself, unable to move. Movement becomes a form of witchcraft. Kinetic forces cause objects to fly about or - even worse - you see yourself leave your body. An old proverb provides comfort: a mirror smashes. A frenetically blinking eye is still visible between the lines of fracture until an assistant briskly clears up the mess and the screen becomes black. Order is restored, comforting music swells up, the nightmare is over.
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Erik Daams
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Camera Manon Labrecque, Marcelle Hudon, Sound, Music Sabin Hudon, Effects Laura Lefave, make-up, Costumes, Isabelle Rousseau, With Manon Labrecque, Sophie Desjardins, Production Le Vidéographe/Mlle Pixel
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