Beauté concept relatif
2026 · 2m
Directed by Frédéric Médrano
Genres: experimental, sci-fi, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, surreal
At the edge of the galaxy, in the interplanetary waste zone Détritus B, drifting rocks strike an old television back to life, and Galactik TV resumes its live broadcast.
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A dead broadcast resurrects itself in the cosmic garbage heap—it's the kind of absurdist premise that shouldn't work but does, turning obsolescence into weird metaphysics without ever explaining itself. Médrano knows exactly when to stop explaining, which is the most contrarian move in experimental sci-fi.
There's a deliberate formalism here, a measured restraint that positions the work in dialogue with structural cinema and found-footage traditions; the decision to let the broadcast resume unattended speaks to a lineage of films that trust silence and duration over exposition.
The choice to have the rocks themselves be the only agent of narrative—no human intervention, no emotional arc, just the physical accident that triggers the impossible—is the kind of elegant constraint that makes a two-minute film feel complete and haunting.