Clémentin
2026 · 2m
Directed by Samuel Lambeaux
Genres: dark comedy, experimental, thriller
Tones: darkly comic, surreal, tense
What began as a technical experiment becomes an obsession: Dany, an animation filmmaker, reproduces in the real world the scenes he draws, conducting ever more troubling experiments planting oranges, until he is no longer looking to plant fruit but to complete his animation.
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The scouts
A filmmaker literally animating real life until reality bends to serve the fiction—it's the kind of premise that makes you laugh and feel vaguely unsettled, which means it's working exactly as intended. Most scouts will call this too weird or too slight; they're wrong.
The conceit sits somewhere between Kiarostami's reality-fiction games and the structural rigor of early experimental animation, though the execution feels more novelty than sustained formal argument—clever but ultimately not quite lean enough to justify the 2-minute frame.
The decision to shoot real-world orange planting sequences with the flatness and repetition of animated keyframes is what sells the whole thing; that single visual rhythm choice transforms what could've been a gimmick into genuine disorientation.