A Very Short Film
2015 · 2m · Canada
Directed by Julien Vallée, Eve Duhamel
Genres: experimental, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, surreal, whimsical
A girl in a yellow dress drifts through a surreal, suspended world — where time floats like rocks, light turns dark and infects all it touches, and both space and time hang motionless.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A minute of pure tactile surrealism that refuses to explain itself — time as floating rocks, light as infection — but honestly, the hand-crafted restraint keeps it from fully committing to the weirdness it's reaching for.
Vallée Duhamel position themselves in the lineage of stop-motion experimentalism with architectural precision; every practical effect feels considered, every frame composed like a gallery piece rather than a narrative.
The decision to build an entire dream-logic world from tangible, hand-made materials instead of leaning on digital shortcuts is what makes this work—that commitment to the texture of the real world to sell the unreal is the whole thing.
Reviews
A girl in a yellow dress journeys through a strange and surreal world where time floats like rocks and the light is dark.