GUMMIES
2026 · 2m
Directed by Constance Chiappinelli
Genres: dark comedy, drama, satire
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, provocative
In an incessant quest for perfection, an influencer will stop at nothing to achieve it.
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Finally—a film that actually weaponizes the influencer premise instead of just winking at it. Chiappinelli doesn't make the safe satire move; she lets the obsession get genuinely grotesque, which is exactly where this idea needed to go.
A brisk formal exercise in escalation, though the satire feels somewhat familiar to the post-2020 wave of social-media critique; what lingers is how precisely the 2-minute structure mirrors the algorithm's own demand for constant micro-content.
The real film lives in whatever production choice forces the viewer to watch someone disintegrate in pursuit of an aesthetic—whether that's a particular editing rhythm, a performance tic, or a visual grotesquerie that the budget somehow makes more unsettling by refusing to look away.