Born in Belgrade in 1951, then in 1960 he moved to Paris. Enki Bilal debuted as cartoonist working for Pilote, the magazine.



At the beginning his sketches deeply reminded of the ones by Moebius, but soon his style became unmistakable, far from being a mere emulation.
The second stage of his artistic career dates back to the end of the eighties, when his comics – perched between science fiction and mythology – turned into celluloid films.

Future Film Festival 2005 dedicates a retrospective to the 3 movies directed by Enki Bilal.
Besides on January 21, Jacquemin Piel, from Duran Animation Studios, will be our guest. He has been the Visual Effects Supervisor of Immortel ad Vitam. The film has been shot with actors on blue screen, while all stages have been post – produced.

Together with Piel, we will go through all the secrets about the city of New York created by Bilal by computer graphics.



Movie Enki Bilal
Bunker Palace Hotel
France 1989, 89'
An imaginary dictature in a futuristic world. Rebellion has bursted out. All the leaders belonging to the ruling class, have taken shelter in Bunker Palace Hotel, a bunker built long ago. A rebel spy manages to sneak in. Although her nature is very quickly suspected, she is left to observe the collapse of the decadent ruling class, keeping on wondering what happened to their leader, who has misteriously disappeared.



Tykho Moon
France 1996, 102'
The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male family members suffer from a mysterious disease and are in urgent need of organ transplants. The perfect donor, Tykho Moon, probably has been killed in a fire, but according to rumours he's still alive. Although assassins stalk the family members, the McBees start a hunt for Tykho.



Immortel (ad vitam)
France 2004,105'
2095, New York. While a wicked pyramid dances in the sky, people from Eugenics Corporation give chase to Nikopol and to Jill. The latter one is arrested, but the Egyptian God, Horus, protects her. Egyptian mithology and cyberpunk, live action and computer graphics, a visionary and witty film.

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