La galerie
2026 · 2m
Directed by Clément Pons
Genres: comedy, documentary, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
Artist Jean-Philippe Torrène exhibits his new works while journalists interview the visitors; opinions are divided, the spectators eccentric — and one question remains: what is a cow doing in the exhibition?
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A two-minute absurdist ambush disguised as gallery documentation—Pons doesn't mock the art world, he just lets it speak and somehow a cow becomes the only honest thing in the room. This is the kind of subversive deadpan that makes conventional satire look exhausting.
The film's formal restraint—its commitment to the interview-and-observation structure without winking—positions it squarely in the lineage of Bunuel and Vigo's institutional critique, where the comedy lives in anthropological precision rather than editorializing.
The decision to keep the camera static and let the eccentricity of the visitors and the inexplicable cow do all the narrative work is what sells it; there's no score, no montage tricks, just the singular choice to trust the premise enough to let it breathe for exactly 120 seconds.