The advent of Panique is the fruit of the meeting of three artists: Roland Topor, Fernando Arrabal and Alejandro Jodorowsky. The movement - or rather non-movement - appeared in France in the 1960s, at a time when surrealism, already in decline, was still dominating literary and artistic life in France. However, the three artists and friends decided to break away from this emblematic movement in which they had taken part, and more particularly from the figure of André Breton, by proposing works that went beyond surrealist thought.