Douche Froide
2026 · 2m
Directed by Aurélien Perriaud
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
Pushed by the stress of a deadline, a graphic designer ends up working in his bathroom.
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A graphic designer colonizes his bathroom as a makeshift office—the premise is so genuinely stupid it loops back to being brilliant, and Perriaud commits to the absurdity without winking, which is exactly what separates this from every other 'work-from-home gone wrong' sketch floating around.
The spatial constraint of the bathroom becomes a formal pressure cooker that recalls the claustrophobic comedy traditions of Tati and early Kaurismäki; Perriaud's composition work within that tiled box shows real consideration for how mise-en-scène can throttle both the character and the viewer.
The decision to anchor the film's entire comic and emotional weight on the bathtub itself—letting it function as both obstacle, sanctuary, and eventual capitulation point—shows the kind of restrained object-work that transforms a two-minute premise into something that actually *lands*.