Back in 2016, Raphaël Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard (under the pseudonym “Seth Ickerman”) became internet sensations after directing Carpenter Brut’s “Turbo Killer” music video. Some seven million views and three years later, “Ickerman” returns with more hyper-stylized synthwave sensationalism in the fiftyish-minute sequel Blood Machines. More intergalactic trance-pop imperialism, more Carpenter Brut nightline bass thumping, […]
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- 10/2/2019
- by Matt Donato
- Slash Film
*there are a few spoilers here. Directors/writers: Raphaël Hernandez, Savitri Joly-Gonfard. Cast: Elisa Lasowski, Anders Heinrichsen, Noémie Stevens, Christian Erickson. Blood Machines is a film from directors: Raphaël Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard; collectively, they are known by the pseudoname Seth Ickerman. Together, they also created the visually stunning music video "Turbo Killer," with composer Carpenter Brut. Fans should view this video, to know how visually stunning Blood Machines actually is. In the story for Blood Machines, two scavengers target a ship and down it on a remote planet. On the surface, these two men encounter a demonic artificial intelligence, which they pursue to ghostly ships' graveyard. The film has a spiritual element, which is very dark in tone. The many upside down crosses might clue viewers into where this film is going (to hell). Meanwhile, this film fan was reminded of a few other films and music videos, while watching this one: Event Horizon.
- 9/19/2019
- by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Blood Machines is the latest sci-fi thriller from directing duo Raphael Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard. Very much in the vein of cyberpunk, the film's first trailer shows lots of space wreckage and a woman emerging from a metal structure. Set to show on Shudder at a future date, the film's score has been composed by Carpenter Brut; his musical scoring is very much synthwave, or new retro wave. This project was developed from a Kickstarter project. And, Blood Machines stars: Elisa Lasowski ("Versailles"), Anders Heinrichsen (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets), Noémie Stevens and several others. If you missed it last week, the trailer for Blood Machines is below. This title is only fifty minutes long, so story details are minimal. Revealed so far, an artificial intelligence has escaped her spaceship, only to turn into a technological ghost. Now, she is in search of two blade runners, with...
- 9/16/2019
- by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
It was just a little while back that French directing duo Seth Ickerman - Raphael Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard - teamed up with synthwave phenomenon Carpenter Brut to create the music video for Carpenter Brut's Turbo Killer. The results were frankly astounding, a gorgeous, retro inspired, vfx heavy affair created in the directing duo's garage and it became a phenomenon online. Jump forward a bit to 2017 when it was announced that Seth Ickerman and Carpenter Brut would be reuniting for Blood Machines, a short film project that they successfully crowd funded 185 thousand Euro on Kickstarter. That project has now grown well beyond its original bounds, with Kung Fury helmer David Sandberg joining as an Ep and the final result requiring more than 400...
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- 7/17/2018
- Screen Anarchy
This is exactly what we all need on a Friday: 4 minutes of awesome.
Seth Ickerman, the name of the French director duo Raphaël Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard, first teamed up with musician Carpenter Brut last year when they directed the music video Turbo Killer. Or perhaps the music is a companion to the 4 minute short. I'm not sure how that all came together but it really is the best 4 minutes of anything I've seen in months.
There are spaceships, flying cars, upside down crosses, aliens, alien hunters and the entire thing looks and sounds like it was made in the mid 80s. The influences are many and some more obvious than others but it all makes for a hugely entertaining bit of video.
Now the team is looking to expand the universe even [Continued ...]...
Seth Ickerman, the name of the French director duo Raphaël Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard, first teamed up with musician Carpenter Brut last year when they directed the music video Turbo Killer. Or perhaps the music is a companion to the 4 minute short. I'm not sure how that all came together but it really is the best 4 minutes of anything I've seen in months.
There are spaceships, flying cars, upside down crosses, aliens, alien hunters and the entire thing looks and sounds like it was made in the mid 80s. The influences are many and some more obvious than others but it all makes for a hugely entertaining bit of video.
Now the team is looking to expand the universe even [Continued ...]...
- 12/16/2016
- QuietEarth.us
Leave it to the French to bemoan the death of 35mm in the midst of a sci-fi thriller. In the case of Ickerman, an impressive looking debut from newcomers Raphaël Hernandez & Savitri Joly-Gonfard, the story concerns a high-school teacher on a mission to save his best friend from virtual world of the future. Bring it on.
With original music by Robin Coudert (aka. "Rob") (Maniac, Horns), this proof-of-concept teaser was filmed in one-night in Paris' business district La Défense and produced in record-time (three months with only one VFX artist) with a limited budget. They're hoping to start filming in early 2017 once they secure funding.
Official Synopsis:
Taking place in a futuristic megalopolis where new technologies and virtual reality are rulin [Continued ...]...
With original music by Robin Coudert (aka. "Rob") (Maniac, Horns), this proof-of-concept teaser was filmed in one-night in Paris' business district La Défense and produced in record-time (three months with only one VFX artist) with a limited budget. They're hoping to start filming in early 2017 once they secure funding.
Official Synopsis:
Taking place in a futuristic megalopolis where new technologies and virtual reality are rulin [Continued ...]...
- 2/3/2016
- QuietEarth.us
“The curtain opening on the screen. The smell of popcorn. Your generation will never know that.” So opens the teaser trailer for French sci-fi film Ickerman, which imagines a future where virtual reality rules society. It seems like an eerily plausible future, as virtual reality makes headlines at 2016’s tech expos and even at Sundance. Just today, HitFix’s Drew McWeeny speculated on the possibility that Star Wars is the property that may bring virtual reality into the mainstream. But in Ickerman that exciting tech has a dark side — the death of movie theaters (a nightmarish future for any film fan!) and the dangers of being so plugged into Vr that you need to be rescued back to reality. Today Ickerman filmmakers Raphaël Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard dropped a teaser trailer for the movie. The teaser is more like a proof-of-concept video — one with a Blade Runner-reminiscent metropolis and...
- 2/2/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
Alright everyone, drop what you're doing and watch this visually stunning proof of concept trailer for a futuristic sci-fi thriller called Ickerman. Judging by what I've seen here, this project looks like it could be an impressive and awesome film. As you'll see it has a Drive and Blade Runner vibe to it that I really liked. Here's the synopsis:
Taking place in a futuristic megalopolis where new technologies and virtual reality are ruling society, Ickerman is an original story following a nostalgic teacher obsessed with 35 mm films and old cars. After a string of disturbing events, he falls into his imaginary world and starts acting like the characters he admires to deliver his best friend from the guru of this digital era.
The movie is set to be directed by French filmmaking duo Raphaël Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard. Ickerman will be their first feature film. The movie project is...
Taking place in a futuristic megalopolis where new technologies and virtual reality are ruling society, Ickerman is an original story following a nostalgic teacher obsessed with 35 mm films and old cars. After a string of disturbing events, he falls into his imaginary world and starts acting like the characters he admires to deliver his best friend from the guru of this digital era.
The movie is set to be directed by French filmmaking duo Raphaël Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard. Ickerman will be their first feature film. The movie project is...
- 2/1/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Wow. This looks great! There's not much of a storyline revealed yet, but I'm hooked anyway. A teaser trailer (essentially a proof-of-concept video) for a French sci-fi film called Ickerman has debuted online and it's a must watch. The project has been picking up buzz at genre markets including Tallinn Black Nights and Frontieres Brussels as they're looking for additional funding to start shooting in 2017, since this teaser was made after only one day of filming in Paris. The script, co-written by the two directors, has been developed during the past year and will be polished in the coming months by a English-speaking screenwriter. I love the look of the vehicles and the world, and the VFX is impressive, it feels very natural and looks very unique. Here's the first teaser for Raphaël Hernandez & Savitri Joly-Gonfard's Ickerman, direct from Vimeo: Taking place in a futuristic megalopolis where new technologies...
- 2/1/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Remember the names of Raphaël Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard, a French duo who work professionally under the name of Seth Ickerman. For while you may not know them know the talent the pair display is so overwhelmingly obvious that you're almost certain to see their work on a big screen near you sometime in the next few years.Case in point, the just released proof of concept for their scifi project Ickerman, an enormously impressive world building affair that the duo created themselves on a meager budget of 1000 Euro, a single day shoot and three months of post production executed solely by themselves. It's fair to say that the result appears far, far larger.Taking place in a futuristic megalopolis where new technologies and virtual reality...
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- 2/1/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Second European edition of genre co-production market to feature two extra spotlights in addition to its 17-strong line-up.
Frontières International Co-Production Market has unveiled the full line-up for its second European edition, taking place at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival from April 9-11.
This year sees an expanded Frontières line-up which will allow more projects to participate in live pitch sessions. In addition, it will include a Market Spotlight, featuring projects co-presented by Blood Window at Ventana Sur and the European Genre Forum at Tallinn Black Nights, and a Seeking Director spotlight which will involved three projects in development.
The 17-strong Frontières line-up features the already-announced Érik Canuel’s On the Threshold (an English-language remake of Sur Le Seuil) alongside new projects from directors Alexandre O. Philippe, Casey Walker and John Harrison, and producers Carole Scotta and Andrew D. Corkin.
It also features Eugene Garcia’s Jessie’s Demons, the new project...
Frontières International Co-Production Market has unveiled the full line-up for its second European edition, taking place at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival from April 9-11.
This year sees an expanded Frontières line-up which will allow more projects to participate in live pitch sessions. In addition, it will include a Market Spotlight, featuring projects co-presented by Blood Window at Ventana Sur and the European Genre Forum at Tallinn Black Nights, and a Seeking Director spotlight which will involved three projects in development.
The 17-strong Frontières line-up features the already-announced Érik Canuel’s On the Threshold (an English-language remake of Sur Le Seuil) alongside new projects from directors Alexandre O. Philippe, Casey Walker and John Harrison, and producers Carole Scotta and Andrew D. Corkin.
It also features Eugene Garcia’s Jessie’s Demons, the new project...
- 2/6/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
The Kaydara Short Film has premiered. Raphael Hernandez, Savitri Joly-Gonfard‘s Kaydara (2011) is fifty-minute short film set in the world of the Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski‘s The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolutions. Kaydara‘s plot synopsis: “Kaydara, a bounty hunter who is living separately from the Human Resistance Group, does not believe in the prophecy of ‘the One.’ He sees this so-called saviour as a threat to the awakening of Man’s self-awareness and considers him an enemy. If their paths cross, Kaydara will not hesitate to confront him.”
Not bad. It definitely expands on the mythos of The Matrix universe the way The Matrix games did for it and the way Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles expanded on the mythos of The Terminator universe. Please keep this in mind though when this short film begins: “Don’t be thrown off by ‘rat Neo’ that...
Not bad. It definitely expands on the mythos of The Matrix universe the way The Matrix games did for it and the way Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles expanded on the mythos of The Terminator universe. Please keep this in mind though when this short film begins: “Don’t be thrown off by ‘rat Neo’ that...
- 5/27/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
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