Dans les yeux de celui qui regarde
2026 · 2m
Directed by Audrey Sedano
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, essay film
Tones: contemplative, tender, whimsical
Hadrien, 14, stuck on an art assignment about 'beauty as heritage', questions an artificial intelligence whose erudite, offbeat answers push him to look around himself — in a painting, a comic, images of the past — until his homework becomes an intimate work revealing an unexpected heritage.
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A 14-year-old using an AI to interrogate beauty and heritage sounds like the kind of on-the-nose premise that should crater, but Sedano somehow makes the algorithm feel like an actual interlocutor—not a gimmick, a mirror.
The essay-film form here sits in careful dialogue with both the pedagogical tradition and contemporary digital aesthetics; the restraint in cutting and the precision of what gets revealed suggests a filmmaker thinking formally about inheritance itself.
That moment where the homework stops being homework—where the accumulation of small looks (painting, comic, archive) crystallizes into something personal—lives entirely in Sedano's choice to let silence and still frames do the work that dialogue won't.