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2026 · 2m
Directed by Camille Duranton
Genres: drama, essay film
Tones: contemplative, sensual, tender
Juliette, blind from birth, walks through the city exploring her other senses, picturing the beauty of the world through what she hears, touches and smells.
Picked by Zoe
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A sighted director making a film about blindness is exactly the kind of well-intentioned trap most shorts fall into—but Duranton resists the urge to make this inspirational dreck, instead committing to pure sensory abstraction in a way that feels genuinely estranged from conventional disability narrative.
Duranton locates this work within the essay-film tradition of phenomenological cinema, a lineage stretching back through Bresson and Vigo; the formal discipline of rendering interiority through sound design and tactile detail rather than visual spectacle demonstrates sophisticated curatorial restraint.
The decision to let the soundscape—not music, not narration, but the actual textured world of the city—become the primary image-maker is what elevates this from conceptual exercise to lived experience; two minutes, no wasted frame, and one sound designer's choice to trust the viewer's imagination completely.