CHASSEURS CUEILLEURS
2026 · 2m
Directed by Yohann Martos
A wounded man is chased by a car through open fields, with no sign of rescue anywhere.
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Two minutes of a man running through fields getting chased by a car sounds like a rejected music video premise, which is exactly why it probably works—stripped of all the thriller scaffolding we expect, it's just primal terror and asphalt, which is refreshingly stupid.
Martos understands that the chase film has been exhausted; what's interesting here is the formal constraint of the field itself as negative space, the way emptiness becomes the real antagonist, situating this squarely in a lineage of minimalist European thrillers that trust silence.
The decision to shoot this in absolute open terrain—nowhere to hide, nowhere to cut to—is brutal and elegant; it's the kind of creative limitation that forces every frame to justify itself, and at two minutes, Martos doesn't waste a single one.