Face Tweak
2024 · 3m · USA
Directed by Bianca Poletti
Genres: experimental, horror, thriller
A teenage girl spirals into obsession with AI face-tuning filters, ultimately reshaping her real self through surgery to match her digitally perfected virtual ideal.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
In three minutes Poletti turns the beauty-filter rabbit hole into genuine body horror — does more with a single afternoon and a VFX house than most features do with a full production cycle.
Black Mirror's premise compressed to three minutes and shot in an afternoon. The pitch is the film, which is the problem — we already know the ending before frame one.
Bianca Poletti shot in a single afternoon with Parliament VFX escalating facial alterations — a three-minute Black Mirror seedling that uses the brevity correctly. A sketch, not a feature pitch, which is the right modesty.