7e Art, on va tous mourir
2026 · 2m
Directed by E. Séguier
Genres: documentary, essay film
Tones: contemplative, theatrical
A documentary opens on the Bry-sur-Marne studios, where an actor travels through the centuries, from the 16th to the 20th, through costumes, makeup, and sets, while a voice-over celebrates the beauty of the seventh art.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A two-minute love letter to cinema disguised as a studio walk-through—too earnest, too reverential, exactly the kind of film that makes festivals feel safe and congratulatory. The premise does the work; there's nothing subversive lurking underneath.
Seguier understands that cinema's genealogy lives in the body and the frame: watching an actor traverse four centuries through costume and makeup *is* watching film history materialize, a formal argument about cinema's debt to theatrical artifice that justifies every considered cut.
The voice-over could sink this entirely, but instead it becomes the film's spine—the decision to let reverence carry the piece rather than irony or distance gives those costume changes real weight, and that restraint is what elevates a studio tour into something that lands.