A monstrous law
French NGO Face à l’Inceste launches a powerful animation that highlights the twin monsters of child sex abuse cases, the perpetrators – and those who fail to protect the victims.
Credits
powered by- Agency Publicis Conseil/Paris
- Production Company Jungler
- Director Vincent Gibaud
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Credits
powered by- Agency Publicis Conseil/Paris
- Production Company Jungler
- Director Vincent Gibaud
- Post Producer Franck-Herve Marc
- Executive Creative Director Fabrice Delacourt
- Copywriter Kevin Salembier
- Art Director Nicolas Hurez
- Executive Producer Alexandra Chavane
- Executive Producer Sebastien Pribile
- Audio Producer Boris Jeanne
- Audio Producer Fabien Cornec
- Illustration Jackson Joyce
- Line Producer Amandine Bruneau
- Animator Alice Blaskevic
- Animator Marine Beaucaire
- Animator Antoine Fleury
- Compositor Lucie Ikhennicheu
- Colorist Clement Le Fouest

Credits
powered by- Agency Publicis Conseil/Paris
- Production Company Jungler
- Director Vincent Gibaud
- Post Producer Franck-Herve Marc
- Executive Creative Director Fabrice Delacourt
- Copywriter Kevin Salembier
- Art Director Nicolas Hurez
- Executive Producer Alexandra Chavane
- Executive Producer Sebastien Pribile
- Audio Producer Boris Jeanne
- Audio Producer Fabien Cornec
- Illustration Jackson Joyce
- Line Producer Amandine Bruneau
- Animator Alice Blaskevic
- Animator Marine Beaucaire
- Animator Antoine Fleury
- Compositor Lucie Ikhennicheu
- Colorist Clement Le Fouest
In Dickens’ Oliver Twist, Mr Bumble famously declares, “The law is an ass.” But in this impactful campaign from Publicis Conseil the law is also a monster.
Directed by Vincent Gibaud, through Jungler, and illustrated by New York artist Jackson Joyce, the film reveals the unacceptable law, still operating in France today, that a child who reports sexual abuse committed by a family member must testify in court that he/she did not give consent.
Titled Two Monsters, the film is an entreaty to French citizens to help change the law by signing a petition.
With rich use of shadow imagery and dynamic painterly textures, the film depicts an abused child fantasising that the creature in the wardrobe, a gavel-wielding symbol of the judiciary, will save him from the other monster in the house, his own father.
Sadly, when the boy asks the wardrobe-dweller for help, he is denied and the question of consent is raised.
Discussing his collaboration with Gibaud, Joyce commented: "We talked about everything looking as if it were from a child’s perspective. So I tried to incorporate that into the character design, especially the figures of the father and monster, imagining them the way a child would see them. Serious tone, juxtaposed with this childlike colour palette is effective – it gives you the perspective of a child, yet still takes the subject seriously."