Sleeping City - La ville endormie (a prologue for Noctambule)

Sleeping City - La ville endormie (a prologue for Noctambule)

The terror between the walls...

2023 · 12 min · Horror, Documentary

First part of a diptych centered on the nightmarish pressure hidden under the surface of the urban environment. Sleeping City is composed as a horrific preamble, introducing the second part: the horror fiction Noctambule. In a city, at nightfall, the cars gradually disappear, the din of the inhabitants fades to give way to a dissonant silence, an invisible threat rumbles.

Directed by Adrien Caulier · Written by Adrien Caulier

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Raphael Mario Biagetti Espeute The man
Marthe Gauthier The girl

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