État de beauté
2026 · 2m
Directed by David Noblet, Chloé Dion
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic
On a day that is anything but ordinary, Aïchatou tries hard to keep up appearances — but one live stream can hide another.
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The nested-livestream structure is clever enough, but it lands in that uncanny valley where experimental narrative feels more like a concept than a genuine subversion—the dark comedy undercuts itself before it can really sting.
A formally composed meditation on performance and visibility that recalls the self-reflexive video-essay tradition; the two-minute constraint forces disciplined editing choices that reward close attention to frame and sound design.
The decision to layer one live stream *within* another live stream—using that formal constraint to expose the gap between curated self and actual self—is the kind of structural elegance that transforms what could be a PSA into something genuinely unsettling and true.