Franck Stella Official | Filmaker Paris New York Berlin

The art of joy 2002 1h28mn black and white

	Alex a young writer looking for recognition gradually sinks into a depression that will lead him from madness to murder
	Nihilist pamphlet, 'l'art de la joie' is a serious movie where despair and black humour are combining...

C'est dans l'antichanbre de l'enfer que se sont développés ces thémes . Un purgatoire artistique avant le reveil .

The art of joy has been realized under precipitation, the making of has lasted only 3 weeks

(where as most of my movies require 6 to 9 months). The scene of violence are reared ,

but I consider it as the most brutal…

I remember that, during the first projections,
some of the public wanted to bit me at the end

It’s a really negative movie, very hard, but very interesting from a philosophical point.

It rise the subjects that I will present in Insomnia, such as that of the animal beings,

the animal that sleep in each of us.