COMA-BERENICES
2026 · 2m
Directed by Louise Greggory, Laura Authier
Genres: dark comedy, experimental, surrealism
Tones: darkly comic, surreal, theatrical
In a surreal society where beauty is a religion and excess the norm, Bérénice lives by AntiSleep pills, grotesque rituals and delirious radio oracles; finishing in beauty becomes the only path to freedom.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A beauty-as-religion premise that actually *commits* to its grotesque logic instead of winking at it—AntiSleep pills and delirious radio oracles treating excess like a path to transcendence. Most shorts would play this for satire; Greggory and Authier play it straight, which is why it slaps.
The surrealist lineage is taut and intentional here, from Buñuel's spiritual grotesquerie to contemporary body-horror cinema, executed with formal precision in two minutes that feel architecturally complete. The ritual grammar—visual and sonic—reads like a fully considered aesthetic system, not decoration.
What seals this is the choice to let the radio oracle's voice *become* the film's logic engine rather than undercut it—every grotesque image follows from that tonal permission, and on a micro-budget that specificity of voice direction is what lifts it from concept to presence.