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Exhibition : The Art of DC Comics – The dawn of superheroes

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Exhibition : The Art of DC Comics – The dawn of superheroes

March 2017 – January 2018

Art Ludique - Le Musée (Paris)

From March 31, 2017 to January 7, 2018, Art Ludique – Le Musée hosted an exceptional exhibition dedicated to the DC Comics universe.
Produced in partnership with Warner Bros. and DC, the event offered visitors the opportunity to contemplate more than 250 original comic strips, as well as 300 concept artworks created for the movies.
Alexandre Poncet composed a musical suite for the occasion, paying tribute to DC’s rich mythology. The score was used as part of the advertising campaign, but also within a short documentary film recounting the history of the studio.

About the exhibition :

Art Ludique – Le Musée presented the world premiere «The Art of DC Comics – The dawn of Superheroes», in collaboration with DC Entertainment and with the participation of Warner Bros Consumer Products. A unique exhibition in the world which pays tribute to the history of DC and his iconics Superheroes and Super Vilains like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Joker which are at the origin of a true contemporary mythology.

Original creation of the Art Ludique – Le Musée team, «The Art of DC Comics – The Dawn of Superheroes», revealed more than 250 original historical plates, more than 300 works of research for the cinema and numerous real costumes and props from the films.

The exhibition on tour :

February – September 2018 :
O2 – Londres

PRESS

France 24 TV report

DISCOVER

Phil Tippett – Mad Dreams and Monsters

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Mad God by Phil Tippett

Bonus

Mad God by Phil Tippett

2023

An experimental animated film inspired by Jerome Bosch, Mad God took almost thirty years to complete for its creator Phil Tippett, responsible for the revolutionary visual effects of Robocop, Jurassic Park, Starship Troopers and the original Star Wars trilogy.
Having followed and documented the creation of Mad God for almost ten years, the Frenetic Arts team produced a detailed making of in 2023 for the Collector’s Edition published by Carlotta Films.

Writing, Directing and Editing: Gilles Penso & Alexandre Poncet

Starring: Phil Tippett, Dan Wool, David Lauer, Chuck Duke et Tom Gibbons

Music: Dan Wool

LEARN MORE

The documentary Phil Tippett : Mad Dreams and Monsters
The book Mad Dreams and Monsters : The Art of Phil Tippett and Tippett Studio

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Phil Tippett – Mad Dreams and Monsters

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Phantom of the Paradise : Collector’s box booklet

Writing

Phantom of the Paradise : Collector’s box booklet

2017

“Songs for the Devil”

Carlotta called on Alexandre Poncet to write a detailed analysis of the soundtrack of Brian de Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise, written by Paul Williams.

Ultra collector’s box set with a print run of 3000 copies. Contains a 200-page book.

Synopsis of the film:

Swan is a producer who has just finished “Paradise”, a huge auditorium in the image of his excess. When he hears the compositions of a young artist, unknown to the general public, he decides to have him locked up by the police and steal his scores… The young artist then returns to haunt the Paradise…

About Carlotta:

In December 2015, Carlotta Films launched a prestigious and high-end collection entitled “Ultra Collector Boxes”, which allows lovers of the 7th Art to rediscover cult films and their enriched archives in a restored and unreleased version.

PRESS

“It is then the musical aspect that is addressed with Alexandre Poncet in a subtle analysis of the songs of Paul Williams, an ‘intuitive composer’ with a ‘frankly paradoxical physique’ who ‘built his existence on a rereading of Faust’.” (DVDClassic.com)

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Phil Tippett – Mad Dreams and Monsters

Juliana

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Exhibition : “Interstellar – Cinema and Special Effects”

Writing

Exhibition : “Interstellar – Cinema and Special Effects”

January – April 2022

Centre des Arts (Enghien-les-Bains

The « Interstellar – Cinema and Special Effects » is the result of a collaboration between Enghien Centre des arts and the Lyon Musée Cinéma & Miniature.

About the exhibition:

This exhibition event allowed visitors to discover extremely rare pieces from classics such as Mars Attacks!, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Aliens or the cult series V. Associated with the Paris Images Digital Summit (PIDS), she also took a look at the career of visual effects supervisor Rob Legato (guest of the 2022 edition), famous for Apollo 13, Titanic and Harry Potter.

About the Centre des Arts :

As a centre for creation, dissemination and artistic residencies, the Centre des arts is recognised as a stage of national interest “Art and Creation” by the Ministry of Culture. The creation of the Centre des arts in 2002 coincided with the emergence of digital technologies in the artistic sphere, but also the emergence of new practices and a gradual decompartmentalization between disciplinary fields. The ambition of the Arts Centre is not to exclude any form or language. Writing, whether scenic, visual, choreographic or museographic, is at the heart of the project. A transdisciplinary place, it offers a varied artistic programme including exhibitions of visual arts, dance, theatre, music, cinema… to which are associated a programme of artistic workshops for young audiences, guided tours.

Know more about the exhibition

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Phil Tippett – Mad Dreams and Monsters

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Heroes collection : the mooks

Writing

Heroes collection : the mooks

2019 – 2023

In 2019, the Frenetic Arts team was contacted by the company Ynnis to ensure the editor-in-chief of a mook specialized in comic-books: Heroes collection is born. Dedicated to heroic figures from comic strips, the collection also looks back at the evolution of the genre in cinema.

While everyone watches superhero movies, it’s not always easy to find your way through the sprawling worlds woven by American publishers since the 1960s. The Heroes mooks, to the rhythm of theatrical releases, aims to resituate superheroes in their context, to expose their origins and to identify the main key stages and issues related to their universes.

Editor-in-chief: François Rey
Contributors: Alexandre Poncet, Fred Wulsch, Henri Delecroix, Nathanaël Bouton-Drouard

Available only in French

Hero #01:
The Mook Who Sometimes Has Thor

Hero #02:
X-Men: Changing Saga!

Hero #03:
Joker: The mook, Why so serious?

Hero #04:
Spider-Man: All the Weaver’s Lives!

Hero #05:
Watchmen and the Anti-Heroes

Hero #06 (Double Cover):
Wonder Women, Black Widow, The Awakening of the Superheroines

Hero #08:
Comics & Series: The New Boom!

Hero #09:
The Genesis of the Marvel Universe

DiSCOVER

Phil Tippett – Mad Dreams and Monsters

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Last Door to the South by Sacha Feiner

Soundtracks

Last Door to the South by Sacha Feiner

2015 – 14 minutes

Last Door to the South marks the second collaboration between director Sacha Feiner and composer Alexandre Poncet, three years after A Better World.

Adapted from a short story by Philippe Foerster published in 1982, this black-and-white film features a two-headed child locked by his parents in an endless building. The process of composing the soundtrack began before filming and continued throughout the production, in order to correspond as closely as possible to Feiner’s vision.The score has four leitmotifs: one for the “world”, one for the young protagonist, one for his castrating mother and one for his missing father, which leaves behind many enigmas.

Awarded at the prestigious Brussels and Clermont-Ferrand festivals, Last Door to the South won the Magritte for Best Animated Short Film in 2016.

About the film:

The world is made up of floors connected by stairs. The floors are made up of rooms connected by corridors. And all the floors, that’s the world. This is the theory elaborated by Toto, the friend and second Siamese head of a child whose mother never let him out of the huge family mansion. Between exploring endless corridors, private schooling and visits to their father’s mausoleum, the brothers never questioned the limits of this world. Until one day, obsessed by a strange light they see by accident, they vow to find the end of it.

Director, Screenwriter, Director of Photography, Editing, Visual Effects: Sacha Feiner
Assistant Director: Chloé Morier

Assistant Cameraman: Letizia Giorgi
Costumes: Jackye Fauconnier
Foreign Producer: Alon Knoll
Sound Engineer: Antoine De Schuyter
Executive: Arnaud Hock
Original Music: Alexandre Poncet

Author of the original work: Philippe Foerster

Awards

Award for Best Animation – International Competition Festival – Clermont Ferrand 2016

First Prize for Best Animation – Rhode Island International Film Festival (United States, 2016)

Grand Prize of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation + RTBF Prize at the Anima Festival (Belgium, 2015)

Best Animated Short Film Magritte 2016

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Rhode-Island-Film-Festival

Federation-Wallonie-Bruxelles

RTBF

Watch the entire short film

Watch the making-of

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Voir le court métrage

Mad dreams and monsters: the art of Phil Tippett and Tippett studio

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Phil Tippett – Mad Dreams and Monsters

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Ray Harryhausen’s Wonderful Tales

Bonus

Ray Harryhausen’s Wonderful Tales

2020

« If Harryhausen was told to me »

In this interview directed by Alexandre Poncet, filmaker Gilles Penso retraces the first steps of the future master of animation throught the evolution of his style and his technique.

Director : Alexandre Poncet
With : Gilles Penso

About the film :
Les contes intemporels de notre enfance revisités par Ray Harryhausen, le maître des effets spéciaux : Le Petit Chaperon rouge, Hansel et Gretel, Raiponce, Le Roi Midas et Le Lièvre et la tortue.
C’est au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale que Ray Harryhausen pose les fondements esthétiques de ses œuvres à venir qui inspireront, entre autres, l’univers de Star Wars. Optant pour une narration en voix off, le créateur des effets spéciaux légendaires de Jason et les Argonautes réalise ces cinq « contes merveilleux » à l’aide de marionnettes articulées selon les principes de la stop-motion, dont l’Américain va devenir le maître absolu.

PRESS

« Enfin, outre la bande-annonce 2018, Carlotta Films donne la parole à Gilles Penso,
réalisateur de trois films devenus des références dans le domaine de l’animation et des effets spéciaux
au cinéma, Ray Harryhausen, le titan des effets spéciaux (2011), Le Complexe de Frankenstein (2015)
et Phil Tippett : Des Rêves et des Monstres (2019), les deux derniers ayant été coréalisés avec Alexandre Poncet
et longuement chroniqué […] dans nos colonnes. Durant près de 20 minutes, l’expert, passionné et passionnant
Gilles Penso propose un retour complet sur les débuts de Ray Harryhausen au cinéma, tout en replaçant les films présentés dans ce programme dans leur contexte, ainsi que dans la carrière du maître de l’animation.
Blindé d’informations et magnifiquement illustré, ce module complète et clôt magistralement cette interactivité.»
(homepopcorn.fr)

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Ray Harryhausen, Special Effects Titan

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Phil Tippett – Mad Dreams and Monsters

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Ray Harryhausen stop-motion

Seen by [Dédo] a fool

Television & Web

Seen by [Dédo] a fool

2008 – 2020

Cult

Comedy web series

Created in 2008, this web-series hilariously deciphers some pop-culture monuments such as Avatar, Spider-Man, Harry Potter or the mangas One Piece and One Punch Man. Dédo stays true to the corrosive humor of his stand-up shows, while following in the footsteps of Gotlib or Monty Python! Some episodes have become cult classics, including the one dedicated to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which peaked at nearly 440,000 views on YouTube.

Written and with: Dédo

Directed by: Alexandre Poncet
Co-directed for some episodes: Johann Garcia

Co-production with Tsume for some episodes

The lines that no one could forget!

“What’s it about? We don’t really know…”

“We’ve got style, we’ve got style, we’ve got style… »

“Do stuff, say stuff, you’ve been stealing my life for 10 minutes!”

“If the key to your plot is a piece of furniture, make a porn instead. At least you can see the money on the screen!”

“And that’s still good.”

The music of Vu par [Dédo] un Con
by Rufus Bellefleur

List of episodes :

And also: Jupiter Ascending, Friday the 13th, Transformers 3 x Bref, Avatar, Ruins, Dirty Dancing, Drag Me to Hell and Martyrs.

DISCOVER

Phil Tippett – Mad Dreams and Monsters

Juliana

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Special Effects : Open your eyes !

Television & Web

Special Effects : Open your eyes !

2018 – 10 minutes

The “Cité des Sciences / Universcience” called on Frenetic Arts to produce a short film to raise awareness of the art of special effects. This program was screened from October 17, 2017 to August 19, 2018 as part of the exhibition Special Effects: Burst the Screen!

The editing, the color grading, the music, the acting all contribute to the effect and contribute to its full success, or sometimes its failure. It doesn’t matter that the heartbreaking farewell scene between the human and the alien was shot on a green screen by an actor without a partner, as long as we are moved! It is the spectator, and only the spectator, who feels the effect, validates it and transforms it into a lived emotion. It is for his gaze that dozens and sometimes hundreds of artists have worked for many months. Discover, through the history of cinema, how the 7th art is constantly inventing new effects and playing with the limits of our perception to offer ever more extraordinary illusions… and ever more undetectable! In this movie theater, observe how the special effects play out from the viewer’s eye in several films such as Cabbage Soup, The Wall Pass, Nana, The Testament of Orpheus, or even Star Wars.

A film by Réjane Hamus-Vallée & Gilles Penso

Image and sound: Sébastien Chambard
Editing: Réjane Hamus-Vallée & Gilles Penso
Music: Alexandre Poncet
Mixing: Lionel Guenoun – Vega Production
Color grading: NODE
Visual effects, design and credits: Gilles Penso

Pages dedicated to the exhibition on the
“Cité des Sciences” website.

Bonus

Exhibition teaser
Special Effects : Burst the screen !

DISCOVER

Phil Tippett – Mad Dreams and Monsters

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Climax by Gaspar Noé

Bonus

Climax by Gaspar Noé

2019 – Several bonuses of differents durations

Blu-Ray published by Wild Side Video (French)

The Frenetic Arts team captured a conversation between Gaspar Noé, director of Irreversible, Enter The Void and Climax, and Jan Kounen, director of Dobermann, 99 francs and Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky. For 40 minutes, the two authors talk about their favorite filmmakers and discuss their directing style. Commissioned by Wild Side Video to be included in the Climax Collector’s Edition, this supplement visually pays homage to Gaspar Noé’s feature debut, Alone Against All. A second supplement highlights the exceptional work of Tom Kan, designer responsible for the credits of Climax and Enter The Void.

Director : Alexandre Poncet
Starring : Gaspar Noe, Jan Kounen, Tom Kan.
Duration : 40 minutes / 15 minutes

DVD + Blu-Ray published by Arrow Video (English)

For the English edition of Climax, again in close collaboration with Gaspar Noé, the Frenetic Arts team collected the testimonies of actors Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile and Romain Guillermic.

In partnership with Wild Side, Arrow Video will once again call on Frenetic Arts in 2022 to produce an expanded version of The Art of Tom Kan, on the occasion of the UK Blu-ray release of Enter The Void.

Director : Alexandre Poncet
Starring : Souheila Yacoub, Romain Guillermic, Kiddy Smile.
Duration : 30 minutes

LEARN MORE

Un extrait du bonus Tom Kan : The Art of the Titles réalisé par Frenetic Arts pour le Blu-ray de Enter The Void sorti chez Arrow en 2022.

DECOUVRIR

Phil Tippett – Mad Dreams and Monsters

Juliana

Under Paris by Xavier Gens