BAM (Brigade Anti Moches)
2026 · 2m
Directed by Christophe Thomas
Genres: dark comedy, satire, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, dark, provocative
Beauty is now governed by a ministry with strict norms. In this dystopia not so far from our own, one question remains: what should be done with the "ugly"?
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A two-minute demolition of beauty-industrial bureaucracy that actually *commits* to the absurdist premise instead of winking at it—Thomas treats dystopian cosmetic fascism with the dead-serious tone of a Soviet instructional film, which is exactly why it lands.
Formally assured satire that understands its lineage in sci-fi body-horror and Kafkaesque administration, with the kind of controlled visual language and pacing discipline that suggests Thomas has studied how Tati and Gilliam build dread through procedural mundanity.
The tonal choice to play the ministry's logic with bureaucratic sincerity rather than caricature is what transforms a one-line pitch into something genuinely unsettling—a single decision that reframes the entire dystopia from silly to chilling.