CORPS ET AME
2026 · 2m
Directed by Jean De Raissac
Genres: drama, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: dark, melancholic, surreal
Rejected by the critics, a painter finds herself imprisoned inside her own canvas, where her hunger for artistic recognition becomes a struggle simply to survive.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A painter trapped inside her own work sounds like high-concept sci-fi nonsense, but De Raissac actually commits to the surrealist logic—rejection becomes literal spatial imprisonment, and the metaphor doesn't wink at you, which is rarer than it should be.
Two minutes of formally controlled descent into a painting-within-painting; the restraint here is classical—each frame knows exactly what it's inheriting from the Symbolist tradition while refusing sentimentality about the artist's suffering.
The decision to keep the canvas itself visible as both setting and character, rather than hiding the artifice, is what sells the whole premise—that single choice of honesty about the frame transforms a clever concept into something genuinely unsettling.