A gore cinema puzzle by Pierre La Police
Traumavision is built from two engines: obsessive cinephilia and private nightmares. Pierre La Police invents imaginary Z-movies — films that never existed, yet feel like artifacts recovered from a parallel VHS shelf. The book reads as a catalogue of feverish posters and plots, genre clichés pushed past logic into abrupt, comedic violence.
The tone is deliberately excessive. La Police conjures "masterpieces" that could only have been made by filmmakers at their most unhinged — mixing exploitation cinema fantasies with cartoon brutality. The publisher's own reference point: the impossible film Russ Meyer might have produced had he shot with Bruce Lee, a few dwarfs, and a lot of blood. Traumavision keeps that promise: surreal set-ups, pulp energy, images that feel simultaneously naïve and strangely precise.
Published by Éditions Cornélius in their Collection Sergio, this is a compact square object with high impact — full color, 72 pages, moving more like a burst transmission than a conventional narrative. It belongs to a tradition of French underground comics and artist publications that privilege tone, rhythm, and visual sabotage over storytelling. The book is no longer available through regular distribution, making this copy relevant to collectors of Cornélius and French experimental illustration.
About Pierre La Police
Pierre La Police is a French artist and cartoonist known for deadpan absurdity, pop-culture sampling, and a graphic language that treats mass entertainment as raw material. His work borrows the surface codes of cinema, pulp, and illustration — then rewires them into short, sharp sequences that oscillate between humor and discomfort. Published by éditions Cornélius, his books sit close to the tradition of French underground comics and artist editions that privilege tone, rhythm, and visual sabotage over classic storytelling.
