Hodos
2026 · 2m
Directed by Charlotte Sougnez
Genres: drama, essay film
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Through the gaze of a precarious woman, the film follows one instant in the lives of several ordinary characters on an urban square.
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Two minutes of people standing in a square sounds like the opposite of subversive until you realize Sougnez is quietly demolishing the myth that drama needs anything to *happen* — the real move is making precarity feel like a formal problem, not a sob story.
A precise distillation of the essay-film tradition, where the gaze itself becomes the subject; Sougnez situates herself in a lineage of observational durational cinema while the 2-minute constraint forces every compositional choice into the foreground.
The decision to hold on ordinary bodies in ordinary space while centering a precarious woman's perspective is the whole film — it's a single, sustained formal gesture that reframes what 'ordinary' means, and it costs nothing but attention.