Demain ne sait JAMAIS
2026 · 2m
Directed by Nathan Authier
Genres: fantasy, surrealism, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
Stuck between two walls, a man finds a mysterious passage between dream and nightmare in his search for freedom.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Two minutes of a guy trapped between walls finding a passage to freedom—sounds like every indie fever dream about claustrophobia, except Authier seems to actually know what he's doing with the surrealism, which is rare enough to be interesting.
The dream-nightmare passage structure invokes a lineage from Cocteau through contemporary European arthouse, and Authier's brevity suggests formal discipline—though the premise risks sliding into familiar territory without the conceptual rigor that would anchor it.
In 120 seconds, Authier commits fully to a single visual or sonic logic that sells the passage between states—that kind of consistency under constraint is what separates student work from something real.