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Chernokids
Matthieu Bernadat,
Nils Boussuge,
Florence Ciuccoli,
Clement Deltour,
Marion Petegnief
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Somewhere in the former Soviet Union, a bunch of child monstrosities introduce themselves to a camera and tell us about the gifts they've chosen for Mother's Day, and tell us they are in a hurry to get there.
Once inside this huge, desolate concrete building we discover that the nuclear plant is not as empty as we believed. It seems the kids’ imagination has spread further than on paper, and we discover who the “mother” really is. As it turns out, the kids are not alone, and the crew sent to clean up the radioactive plant destroy their love and playground. The kids do not give up without a fierce fight.
In the end, they get back to the orphanage, to reality.
Links: http://www.chernokids.fr/
Once inside this huge, desolate concrete building we discover that the nuclear plant is not as empty as we believed. It seems the kids’ imagination has spread further than on paper, and we discover who the “mother” really is. As it turns out, the kids are not alone, and the crew sent to clean up the radioactive plant destroy their love and playground. The kids do not give up without a fierce fight.
In the end, they get back to the orphanage, to reality.
Links: http://www.chernokids.fr/
Sound design: 3d'tension: Nikolas Javelle, Sébastien Rouyer-Fessard, Yann Philippe
Production: Supinfocom Valenciennes
Distribution: Premium Films
© Supinfocom
Production: Supinfocom Valenciennes
Distribution: Premium Films
© Supinfocom
Matthieu Bernadat, Nils Boussuge, Florence Ciuccoli, Clement Deltour, Marion Petegnief (FR) are students from Supinfocom who grew up in France and met at school. “We were interested in Chernobyl as it is seldom mentioned (a lot more since Fukushima) and we were all born during that time. It's a poisonous “no-man's land” that we believe provides the basis for a good story. We were also very interested in Paul Fusco's photographic work on the consequences of Chernobyl for the children of the area.”