État des lieux
2026 · 2m
Directed by Laura Ghazal
Genres: dark comedy, experimental, satire
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, provocative
In this metaphorical inspection, every detail is scrutinised, noted and judged — an unsettling survey that questions, with dark humour, our definition of beauty.
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A two-minute inversion that weaponizes the language of bureaucratic inspection against beauty itself — Ghazal finds the perverse comedy in how rigorous scrutiny can demolish meaning, and she's betting we'll laugh at the absurdity before we feel queasy about it.
Ghazal positions herself in a lineage of deadpan institutional critique (think early Koolhaas or Guattari), deploying formal precision and restraint to let the dark humor settle like sediment rather than explode; the editing rhythm is what sells the provocation.
The real lift here is Ghazal's decision to let the inspection proceed with total flatness—no winking, no narrator, just relentless documentation—which transforms what could've been heavy-handed satire into something genuinely unsettling and funny in the space between what's being judged and who's doing the judging.