Gildaa
2026 · 2m
Directed by Camille Constantin da Silva
Genres: comedy, experimental, satire
Tones: absurdist, theatrical, whimsical
Gildaa is looking for her friend Albert Moukheiber, a psychologist; she opens the wrong door and lands on the casting of a film for the Nikon Film Festival on Beauty, resembling Dostoevsky's Idiot, who cries that beauty will save the world.
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A two-minute film that collapses a psychologist's errand into a Dostoevsky fever dream via a Nikon ad audition—the premise is so deliberately absurd it feels like a middle finger to narrative logic, and somehow that's exactly why it works.
Constantin da Silva channels a lineage of absurdist cinema (Tati, early Godard) through its theatrical staging and formal restraint, constructing meaning through the friction between mise-en-scène and philosophical citation rather than plot momentum.
The film's entire architecture rests on the decision to play the Beauty/Idiot reference straight within a corporate casting room—that tonal collision, sustained across two minutes with zero budget waste, is what elevates what could've been a sketch into something genuinely disorienting.