L'ÉCLAT
2026 · 2m
Directed by Tansi Makele
Genres: drama, fantasy, horror
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
A model falls ill mid-shoot and discovers her body is producing something impossible; the anomaly becomes a source of power until beauty, success, and exhaustion blur into one another.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A body horror premise wrapped in fashion-world malaise should feel more transgressive than it does—the surrealism is competent, but it doesn't actually *offend* anything, which for a 2-minute short about a model's impossible metamorphosis feels like wasted provocation.
Makele demonstrates formal control in the way exhaustion and transformation collapse into one another visually, though the film occupies an uncomfortably familiar middle ground between body-horror lineage and contemporary wellness-anxiety narrative.
The crucial move here is how the sound design treats the anomaly not as grotesque but as seductive—that sonic choice, the way power and sickness become indistinguishable through audio, is what transforms a high-concept premise into something that actually *feels* like it matters.