Julián Génisson

Oscurante (Darkening) 

In his project, Julián Génisson intertwines the stories of two characters: Pedro, who can only sleep if someone is by his side, and Adriana, who discovers a way to monetise sleep by streaming herself asleep. Their destinies will collide in the wake of a grotesque epidemic. Oscurante is a film about fear. It pits the fear of loneliness against the fear of company; the fear of darkness against the fear of being seen; the fear of crazy ideas that strike at night, when logical thought lets its guard down. But where there is fear there is also fascination: for the night-time, for whatever lies behind drawn curtains, and for an act as banal and profoundly anomalous as that of sleeping.

Bio

Julián Génisson (Madrid, 1982) holds a degree in Philosophy and was a member of the former audiovisual collective Canódromo Abandonado. As part of a collective, he co-directed the feature films La tumba de Bruce Lee (The Tomb of Bruce Lee) and Esa sensación (That Sensation), and he has directed the solo works Inmotep and -CUANDO-MUERES-TE-CONVIERTES-EN-UN-SITIO-PUSSY-IN-BIO- (WHEN YOU DIE, YOU BECOME A PUSSY IN BIO SITE). As a screenwriter, he has worked on Mamántula and Balearic, both directed by Ion de Sosa. He is the author of the short story collection Cerebroleso (Brain-addled) and the essay Deshacer el ridículo (Undoing the Ridiculous), on humour and laughter. He is currently working on a feature film called Identikit, selected for the third edition of the Film Academy Residencies.