Choosing a film gives me the opportunity to speak of the French magazine from the 70s and 80s, 'Métal Hurlant' and more generally of a time of mad creativity when artists like Druillet, Caza, Moebius, to name a few, gave science fiction a new more grown up graphic representation, and unlimited artistic freedom. Without having the pretension to compare myself to these illustrious creators,  with Blood Machines I've tried to create a film that ignores norms and that remains as artistically free as possible. This desire had a human cost because institutions are not too happy to financially support this sort of endeavour... In the same way, Metal Hurlant and all the artists around it, suffered much criticisms and difficulties in their day to bring their ideas to life, but are today running through the veins of many major science fiction works. The movie Heavy Metal gives a glimpse of this spirit of freedom... It's sometimes violent, with no sexual taboos, narratively unsettling, but always graphically and artistically powerful.