Celles qui regardent
2026 · 2m
Directed by Louise Langlois, Kelssy Abdou
Genres: drama, experimental, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
They have no other name, no individuality, no existence outside what they see: ghost-like hunters of beauty who watch, who search — passers of images, instants, and landscapes, those who watch.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
It's got the surrealist bones, sure, but 'watchers of beauty' feels like it's *trying* to be cryptic rather than actually *being* subversive—the premise does the heavy lifting while the film just lets it sit there looking mysterious.
A formally precise meditation on spectatorship and ephemera that positions itself squarely in the lineage of structural cinema and lyric essay film; the restraint and conceptual rigor here are exactly what elevates a 2-minute sketch into a complete artistic statement.
The choice to strip the figures of names and identity forces every compositional decision—framing, pacing, how long we hold each landscape—to do the work of character development, and that singular constraint transforms what could've been pretentious into something genuinely haunting.