HORS-CADRE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Marthe Dyra
Genres: comedy, experimental, satire
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, darkly comic
Obsessed with her own image, a woman's narcissistic effervescence takes up all the space; by dint of watching herself she erases the world, deforms her face, and misses the essential — the beauty of the present moment.
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A two-minute scalpel aimed at the narcissistic gaze itself—Dyra flips the script so that self-obsession becomes literally deforming, the face warping under its own scrutiny until the viewer's complicity in watching becomes part of the joke. Nobody else would bet on such a genuinely uncomfortable premise working as satire, but here we are.
Dyra's control over the visual language—the way frame and focus collapse inward as the subject absorbs all space—positions this work within a lineage of experimental meditation on the gaze, from Valie Export to contemporary video essay. The formal rigor of watching erasure happen through watching itself is the through-line that holds the satire taut.
The decision to let the face *physically degrade* in real time rather than cut away is what transforms this from concept into something felt; it's a single technical commitment—sustained deformation in-frame—that makes the absurdist premise land with actual dread and prevents the satire from becoming mere commentary.