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Julien Zenier Talks About MARTYRS!
This interview with directors like Fabrize du Welz, Alexandre Bustillo, Jan Kounen, Karim Hussain, Fernando de Azevedo and Julien Zenier, talking about the CensorShip in France on the Feature Film MARTYRS, was posted in DVD-Drama (June, 2008).
SNIP at FanTasia!
We have just been noticed by E-Mail that SNIP is in the Official Selection of the FanTasia North America's Premier Genre Film Festival 2008. This Festival is at it's 12th Edition, and will be celebrated between 3 to 21 July, 2008. The ShortFilm is scheduled to screen on July 10th in the city of Montreal, Canada.
SNIP at Espagnolas en París!
We have just been noticed by E-Mail that SNIP will be projected during Espagnolas en París: Différent! (La Nuit de l Étrange Espagnol). The ShortFilm is scheduled to screen on June 20th in the city of Paris, France.
ShowCase at Short Film Corner in Cannes!
SNIP will be screened as a ShowCase during the Cannes Festival at the Short Film Corner. This Festival will be celebrated between 14th to 24th May, 2008 in the city of Cannes, France. Meet the SNIP team at Cannes, look out for people wearing a cool Snip T-Shirts!.
Official SouthAmerican Premiere!
SNIP has been selected to compete at the Rio de Janeiro International Fantastic Film Festival (RioFan). This Festival is at it's 1st Edition, and will be celebrated between 29th April to 11th May, 2008 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This will be our Official SouthAmerican Premiere for the film in his 35mm format and Dolby Surround Sound.
SNIP at RioFan!
We have just been noticed by E-Mail that SNIP is in the Official Selection of the of the Rio de Janeiro International Fantastic Film Festival (RioFan), 2008. This Festival is at it's 1st Edition, and will be celebrated between 29th April to 11th May, 2008 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
SNIP at Twitch!
"12 minutes of helplessness and eventual self expression by the edge of a knife. Wow!". This review of SNIP, was posted in Twitch (April, 2008).
Official European Premiere!
SNIP has been selected to compete at the prestigious and gory International Short Film Competition (April 5th, 2008), at the 26th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF), the world's biggest Festival of Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction Films (March 27th to April 8th, 2008). This will be our Official European Premiere for the film in his 35mm format and Dolby Surround Sound. Meet the SNIP team at the BIFFF, look out for people wearing a cool Snip T-Shirts!.
SNIP at BIFFF!
We have just been noticed by E-Mail that SNIP is in the Official Selection of the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film 2008. This Festival is at it's 26th Edition, and will be celebrated between 27th March to 8th April, 2008 in the city of Brussels.
iPhone Official WebSite!
Now you can visit the iPhone Official WebSite, featuring Trailer, Synopsis... And many more to come!.
SNIP at L'Étrange Festival Lyon!
We have just been noticed by E-Mail that SNIP is in the Official Selection of the of the L'Étrange Festival Lyon 2008. This Festival is at it's 1st Edition, and will be celebrated between 26th to 30th March, 2008 in the city of Lyon (France).
SNIP at Horror Society!
"I'm not sure where this one could go but so far it looks interesting, and you know it has to be somewhat good with a title like SNIP!". This review of the SNIP Trailer, was posted in Horror Society (13th February, 2007).
YouTube Official Channel!
Now you can visit the YouTube Official Channel, featuring Trailers, Teaser... And many more to come!.
MySpace Official WebSite!
Now you can visit the Official MySpace WebSite, featuring Trailers, Teaser, Video Podcast... And many more to come!.
BlogSpot Official Blog!
Now you can free subscribe to our RSS feeds and read all about SNIP and it's making. Written in french by Director Julien Zenier. Provided by L'Étrange Festival Strasbourg.
SNIP at Etrange Nuits du Cinema!
We have just been noticed by E-Mail that SNIP is in the Official Selection of the Les Etranges Nuits du Cinéma 2008. This Festival is at it's 7th Edition, and will be celebrated between 20th to 23th March, 2008 in the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland).
iTunes Store!
Now you can free subscribe to our Video Podcast and download weekly exclusive contents via iTunes Store.
Trailers Page!
Now you can see the trailers from this html page, including formats as HD/SD/iPod/PSP/WMV.
SNIP at Cinetrange Hors Serie!
Now you can subscribe to our Video Podcast and download weekly exclusive contents related to the film and it's making.
Podcast Update!
Now you can subscribe to our Video Podcast and download weekly exclusive contents related to the film and it's making.
Official WebSite!
Welcome to the SNIP Official WebSite. Here you can find: News, Trailes (HD/SD/iPod/PSP/WMV), Video Podcasts, RSS Hot News... And many more to come!.
SNIP at Mad Movies!
"An excellent surprise..." This review of the L'Étrange Festival Strasbourg, was published in Mad Movies No. 203. (December, 2007).
SNIP at L'Étrange Festival Strasbourg!
SNIP was presented as a Working Copy in the Official Selection of the L'Étrange Festival Strasbourg 2007. This Festival is at it's 13th Edition, and was celebrated between 24th to 28th October, 2007 in the city of Strasbourg (France).
This interview with directors like Fabrize du Welz, Alexandre Bustillo, Jan Kounen, Karim Hussain, Fernando de Azevedo and Julien Zenier, talking about the CensorShip in France on the Feature Film MARTYRS, was posted in DVD-Drama (June, 2008).
SNIP at FanTasia!
We have just been noticed by E-Mail that SNIP is in the Official Selection of the FanTasia North America's Premier Genre Film Festival 2008. This Festival is at it's 12th Edition, and will be celebrated between 3 to 21 July, 2008. The ShortFilm is scheduled to screen on July 10th in the city of Montreal, Canada.
SNIP at Espagnolas en París!
We have just been noticed by E-Mail that SNIP will be projected during Espagnolas en París: Différent! (La Nuit de l Étrange Espagnol). The ShortFilm is scheduled to screen on June 20th in the city of Paris, France.
ShowCase at Short Film Corner in Cannes!
SNIP will be screened as a ShowCase during the Cannes Festival at the Short Film Corner. This Festival will be celebrated between 14th to 24th May, 2008 in the city of Cannes, France. Meet the SNIP team at Cannes, look out for people wearing a cool Snip T-Shirts!.
Official SouthAmerican Premiere!
SNIP has been selected to compete at the Rio de Janeiro International Fantastic Film Festival (RioFan). This Festival is at it's 1st Edition, and will be celebrated between 29th April to 11th May, 2008 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This will be our Official SouthAmerican Premiere for the film in his 35mm format and Dolby Surround Sound.
SNIP at RioFan!
We have just been noticed by E-Mail that SNIP is in the Official Selection of the of the Rio de Janeiro International Fantastic Film Festival (RioFan), 2008. This Festival is at it's 1st Edition, and will be celebrated between 29th April to 11th May, 2008 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
SNIP at Twitch!
"12 minutes of helplessness and eventual self expression by the edge of a knife. Wow!". This review of SNIP, was posted in Twitch (April, 2008).
Official European Premiere!
SNIP has been selected to compete at the prestigious and gory International Short Film Competition (April 5th, 2008), at the 26th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF), the world's biggest Festival of Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction Films (March 27th to April 8th, 2008). This will be our Official European Premiere for the film in his 35mm format and Dolby Surround Sound. Meet the SNIP team at the BIFFF, look out for people wearing a cool Snip T-Shirts!.
SNIP at BIFFF!
We have just been noticed by E-Mail that SNIP is in the Official Selection of the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film 2008. This Festival is at it's 26th Edition, and will be celebrated between 27th March to 8th April, 2008 in the city of Brussels.
iPhone Official WebSite!
Now you can visit the iPhone Official WebSite, featuring Trailer, Synopsis... And many more to come!.
SNIP at L'Étrange Festival Lyon!
We have just been noticed by E-Mail that SNIP is in the Official Selection of the of the L'Étrange Festival Lyon 2008. This Festival is at it's 1st Edition, and will be celebrated between 26th to 30th March, 2008 in the city of Lyon (France).
SNIP at Horror Society!
"I'm not sure where this one could go but so far it looks interesting, and you know it has to be somewhat good with a title like SNIP!". This review of the SNIP Trailer, was posted in Horror Society (13th February, 2007).
YouTube Official Channel!
Now you can visit the YouTube Official Channel, featuring Trailers, Teaser... And many more to come!.
MySpace Official WebSite!
Now you can visit the Official MySpace WebSite, featuring Trailers, Teaser, Video Podcast... And many more to come!.
BlogSpot Official Blog!
Now you can free subscribe to our RSS feeds and read all about SNIP and it's making. Written in french by Director Julien Zenier. Provided by L'Étrange Festival Strasbourg.
SNIP at Etrange Nuits du Cinema!
We have just been noticed by E-Mail that SNIP is in the Official Selection of the Les Etranges Nuits du Cinéma 2008. This Festival is at it's 7th Edition, and will be celebrated between 20th to 23th March, 2008 in the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland).
iTunes Store!
Now you can free subscribe to our Video Podcast and download weekly exclusive contents via iTunes Store.
Trailers Page!
Now you can see the trailers from this html page, including formats as HD/SD/iPod/PSP/WMV.
SNIP at Cinetrange Hors Serie!
Now you can subscribe to our Video Podcast and download weekly exclusive contents related to the film and it's making.
Podcast Update!
Now you can subscribe to our Video Podcast and download weekly exclusive contents related to the film and it's making.
Official WebSite!
Welcome to the SNIP Official WebSite. Here you can find: News, Trailes (HD/SD/iPod/PSP/WMV), Video Podcasts, RSS Hot News... And many more to come!.
SNIP at Mad Movies!
"An excellent surprise..." This review of the L'Étrange Festival Strasbourg, was published in Mad Movies No. 203. (December, 2007).
SNIP at L'Étrange Festival Strasbourg!
SNIP was presented as a Working Copy in the Official Selection of the L'Étrange Festival Strasbourg 2007. This Festival is at it's 13th Edition, and was celebrated between 24th to 28th October, 2007 in the city of Strasbourg (France).
SYNOPSIS
SNIP depicts an extremely painful and nightmarish submersion in a world filled with apathy, alienation, emptiness and despair.
Glued to his TV set, a man channel-surfs frenetically, zapping from one stultifying show to the other. As he grows more and more indifferent to the constant stream of violent and crude images, he stands up and engages himself in an unspeakable act of self-liberation.
"A visceral and genuinely nightmarish experience that will make even the most hard-boiled viewer cringe in his seat."
Glued to his TV set, a man channel-surfs frenetically, zapping from one stultifying show to the other. As he grows more and more indifferent to the constant stream of violent and crude images, he stands up and engages himself in an unspeakable act of self-liberation.
"A visceral and genuinely nightmarish experience that will make even the most hard-boiled viewer cringe in his seat."
ABOUT
What is SNIP?
It's first and foremost a reflection on how people slowly allow themselves to become numb and dehumanized, how they become slaves...
And what it takes, to rise up again as free beings.
In the Beginning
It started with a recurrent nightmare I had about someone peeling his skin off. On and on, like a never-ending loop. All in vivid and gory
details, as if David Lynch had shot the skinless kiss scene from Hellbound: Hellraiser II.
SNIP is really borne out of that nightmare.
Fleshing out SNIP
SNIP started out as a short experimental film, more or less inspired by the works of Stan Brakhage whom I've always been a great admirer of. On second thought, it seemed too abstract.
At it's core, SNIP is about emotions and feelings long buried, bubbling up to the surface again.
It's about someone who stands up against his own apathy.
Let there be light
Cinematographer David Acereto, who worked as camera operator on several acclaimed Spanish genre movies (The Night Of The
Sunflowers, BackWoods…), brought out particularly fine details such as the surface of the skin and the networks of nerves within an already dimly lit environment.
What I wanted to achieve with SNIP is to maintain a balance between graphic, visceral shock and a stylized aesthetic.
David accomplished this boldly and dramatically, exceeding all of my expectations.
Working with FX
I can't stress the great contribution of the Quimera FX team enough, especially since they had the time factor going against them. They had less than a month to create elaborate props and prosthetics from scratch.
We used mainly sculptures, detailed anatomy sketches and pictures as references to achieve the naturalistic tone I was shooting for.
The outcome is tremendously realistic to the point that it looks almost natural.
A blood-splattered performance
SNIP wouldn't be as edgy without Zoe Berriatúa (Africa, Volavérunt...). Not only was he perfectly in tune with what I had in mind, he also showed a lot of commitment and brought an earnest intensity to the role.
He was extremely supportive all around, even when he had to stay naked during long hours in a freezing cold set, not to mention the prosthetic latex pieces he had to bear with.
You couldn't make it more difficult as it already was.
Making the word be flesh
Even if there's not an immediate connection, SNIP is a very personal take on the New Flesh theme.
The character played by Zoe definitely shares the same disconnected-ness and loneliness as any cronenbergian figure.
He's at odds with himself and unable to communicate other than through extreme body modifications.
The Art of SNIP
One of the greatest challenges of SNIP was to instil a palpable tension throughout the whole film.
We went for something that was quite close to Caravaggio's chiaroscuro technique, with it's dramatic light and deep hues.
Auguste Rodin was another great influence. His sculptures are endlessly fascinating: they show us not only the movements of the body but also the feelings that drive them, which is what I was really after.
Shooting SNIP
We shot SNIP over three nights of non-stop filming in October 2007. The set was originally a sculptor's workshop where Pedro Almodovar is rumored to have shot a few scenes and which we redesigned to fit our needs.
It was quite hectic and exhausting, especially for the actor and the Quimera FX team who worked extremely long hours to apply the prosthetics and all the props.
Photographically we decided to go handheld not only to capture a naturalistic feel but also to enhance the character's alienation and again to maintain a palpable sense of tension.We used Sony HDW-750p camera and DigiPrime lenses, mainly because it provides such color depth and contrast that you might associate with 35mm film. One of it's upsides is that it also transfers well to 35mm film for projection.
On the Edge
I didn't want SNIP to be pinned down to any distinct style. It's neither an all-out in-your-face gore fest nor an experimental short film. It's somewhere in between.
I don't want to give away too many clues (ultimately, SNIP is what you will make out of it), but my intention was to create a visceral visual experience, one that would make the viewer cringe.
Alejandro Jodorowsky once said: "movies should drive people mad, they should be like a razor blade slicing through an eye".
This pretty much sums up what SNIP is all about.
It's first and foremost a reflection on how people slowly allow themselves to become numb and dehumanized, how they become slaves...
And what it takes, to rise up again as free beings.
In the Beginning
It started with a recurrent nightmare I had about someone peeling his skin off. On and on, like a never-ending loop. All in vivid and gory
details, as if David Lynch had shot the skinless kiss scene from Hellbound: Hellraiser II.
SNIP is really borne out of that nightmare.
Fleshing out SNIP
SNIP started out as a short experimental film, more or less inspired by the works of Stan Brakhage whom I've always been a great admirer of. On second thought, it seemed too abstract.
At it's core, SNIP is about emotions and feelings long buried, bubbling up to the surface again.
It's about someone who stands up against his own apathy.
Let there be light
Cinematographer David Acereto, who worked as camera operator on several acclaimed Spanish genre movies (The Night Of The
Sunflowers, BackWoods…), brought out particularly fine details such as the surface of the skin and the networks of nerves within an already dimly lit environment.
What I wanted to achieve with SNIP is to maintain a balance between graphic, visceral shock and a stylized aesthetic.
David accomplished this boldly and dramatically, exceeding all of my expectations.
Working with FX
I can't stress the great contribution of the Quimera FX team enough, especially since they had the time factor going against them. They had less than a month to create elaborate props and prosthetics from scratch.
We used mainly sculptures, detailed anatomy sketches and pictures as references to achieve the naturalistic tone I was shooting for.
The outcome is tremendously realistic to the point that it looks almost natural.
A blood-splattered performance
SNIP wouldn't be as edgy without Zoe Berriatúa (Africa, Volavérunt...). Not only was he perfectly in tune with what I had in mind, he also showed a lot of commitment and brought an earnest intensity to the role.
He was extremely supportive all around, even when he had to stay naked during long hours in a freezing cold set, not to mention the prosthetic latex pieces he had to bear with.
You couldn't make it more difficult as it already was.
Making the word be flesh
Even if there's not an immediate connection, SNIP is a very personal take on the New Flesh theme.
The character played by Zoe definitely shares the same disconnected-ness and loneliness as any cronenbergian figure.
He's at odds with himself and unable to communicate other than through extreme body modifications.
The Art of SNIP
One of the greatest challenges of SNIP was to instil a palpable tension throughout the whole film.
We went for something that was quite close to Caravaggio's chiaroscuro technique, with it's dramatic light and deep hues.
Auguste Rodin was another great influence. His sculptures are endlessly fascinating: they show us not only the movements of the body but also the feelings that drive them, which is what I was really after.
Shooting SNIP
We shot SNIP over three nights of non-stop filming in October 2007. The set was originally a sculptor's workshop where Pedro Almodovar is rumored to have shot a few scenes and which we redesigned to fit our needs.
It was quite hectic and exhausting, especially for the actor and the Quimera FX team who worked extremely long hours to apply the prosthetics and all the props.
Photographically we decided to go handheld not only to capture a naturalistic feel but also to enhance the character's alienation and again to maintain a palpable sense of tension.We used Sony HDW-750p camera and DigiPrime lenses, mainly because it provides such color depth and contrast that you might associate with 35mm film. One of it's upsides is that it also transfers well to 35mm film for projection.
On the Edge
I didn't want SNIP to be pinned down to any distinct style. It's neither an all-out in-your-face gore fest nor an experimental short film. It's somewhere in between.
I don't want to give away too many clues (ultimately, SNIP is what you will make out of it), but my intention was to create a visceral visual experience, one that would make the viewer cringe.
Alejandro Jodorowsky once said: "movies should drive people mad, they should be like a razor blade slicing through an eye".
This pretty much sums up what SNIP is all about.
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