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Elnécavé strips the gaze down to its most literal—a floating eyeball watching *everything*—which should be pretentious garbage, but instead it's genuinely weird and funny; the film knows exactly how absurd its conceit is and leans into it like a provocation.

A formally precise reckoning with the camera's role in cinema itself, animated with deliberate restraint; Eye sits comfortably in the lineage of experimental animation that treats perception as philosophy, ancestors like Len Lye and descendants who followed.

The entire conceptual weight hinges on one choice—making the eye itself the protagonist rather than what it sees—and Elnécavé commits so completely to that constraint that the animation becomes an argument about attention itself, doing remarkable work on what must have been a modest budget.