Invisiblement moi
2026 · 2m
Directed by Andrea Bonnafous
Genres: drama, experimental, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
Penelope, a young woman preoccupied with her appearance and terrified by others' gaze, crosses the city as her anxieties gradually deform her image, until she loses her footing under the stares of a crowd that consumes her as much as it defines her.
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The premise of anxiety literally warping your face is exactly the kind of body-horror-meets-psychology move that feels obvious in hindsight but takes guts to commit to—and Bonnafous doesn't blink, letting the surrealism do the heavy lifting instead of winking at the camera about it.
There's a lineage here—Cocteau's fluidity, maybe touches of Švankmajer's visceral metamorphosis—but what matters is Bonnafous's restraint: a two-minute form that trusts deformation over explanation, formal control bleeding into thematic surrender.
The choice to let the visual distortion accumulate in real time rather than cut between 'normal Penelope' and 'warped Penelope' is what makes this work—it forces us into her temporality, watching the gaze do its damage frame by frame, which on a two-minute budget is exactly where craft becomes story.