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Benjamin Rocher
(Les Lilas, France, 1977) studied applied arts (to the image and technology). He began working in 3D animation and special effects. He has been a director and producer for six years. In 2007 he and Yannick Dahan founded the production house Capture The Flag Films and co-directed Rivoallan, the short film that preceded La Horde. He previously made Ticket-Land, a live action short with 3D special effects and the animated short HominusRex Creator.
La horde is a radical work of fiction, not necessarily rooted in presentation of implied or gratuitously explicit violence, preferring to focus on the development of the characters and the thematic backdrop against which their tale unfolds. Initially, both the cops and the gangsters are in a real psychological dead end. In many ways, the cops’ punishment raid is a suicide mission… Thrown together by circumstance and their instinct for survival, forced to unite in the face of danger, the characters are still ultimately alone. Surprisingly, perhaps even quite iconoclastically, La horde is nevertheless still a very moral film at heart. We refuse to apologize for, or to attempt to justify, the decision of the cops to take the law into their own hands. There is also, of course, no way to gloss over the fact that our “larger than life” fictional gangsters are fundamentally just dangerous psychopaths. However; the characters, while initially unsympathetic, will eventually reveal their humanity by showing their inner conflicts and what lies beneath their obvious Manichaeism.
Yannick Dahan & Benjamin Rocher
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