A TRAVERS TOI
2026 · 2m
Directed by Stéphane Vizet
Genres: drama, experimental, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
Before her mirror, Lisa does her makeup as she prepares for a singular day; between reflections, memory, and dreamlikeness, memories emerge around her, as voices and flashes of the past tell the story of a presence, an absence, and a bond that exceeds the visible.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Two minutes of a woman doing makeup shouldn't work as experimental cinema, but Vizet's refusal to let the mirror stay a mirror—collapsing past into present into dream—is genuinely perverse in the best way; most scouts would see routine, he saw a portal.
A Travers Toi situates itself precisely in the lineage of phenomenological cinema and memory-work (Bresson's mirrors, Tarkovsky's collapse of time), executing its formal conceit with the kind of considered restraint that separates craft from cleverness; the editing between reflection and flashback is the skeleton of the whole film, and it's immaculate.
The decision to let voices—fragmented, overlapping, sometimes sourceless—anchor the visual abstraction rather than compete with it creates an economy of storytelling that most shorts twice this length fail to achieve; that single sound design choice makes the melancholy legible.