Blind Eye
2019 · 6m · Francia
Directed by Bruno Cohen, Diego Porral, Germaine Colajanni, Isabela Littger De Pinho, Rohan Deshchougule, Rohit Kelkar, Yujia Wang
Genres: fantasy, mystery, thriller
In a world that worships the Almighty Eye, two siblings find themselves escaping from sacrifice, only to discover that their world is not what it appeared to be.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Six directors on a 6-minute film about eye-worship and false worlds should be a disaster—instead it's deliberately weird in ways that feel earned, not just provocative for its own sake, and that restraint almost disappoints me.
A genuinely mythic premise executed with formal precision: the film builds its cosmology through image and sound design with the kind of deliberate, layered construction that positions it squarely in the lineage of surrealist and magical realist cinema—the kind of work that rewards close reading.
The decision to obscure and fragment the "Almighty Eye" itself rather than reveal it directly—keeping the threat architectural and abstract—is what sells the entire premise and makes the siblings' escape feel genuinely uncanny on a micro-budget.