'Mal de horror (Horror Sickness)' is a meditation on texts from the 19th century novel 'Les Chants de Maldoror' written by the Comte de Lautreamont, the pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse and sited by many surrealist masters, including Dali, Bunuel and Cocteau as their inspiration. This short film draws parallels on the power of art to move the human spirit and on the dichotomy in the repercussions of such power. In an era where video technologies are widely available and constantly expose and even invade our privacy, has the responsibility of the maker to its subject(s) changed?