La Main de l'autre
2026 · 2m
Directed by Samba Konaté
Genres: drama, experimental, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, melancholic
At the exhibition of a painter officially dead, Manu finds that painter, Patrice, in his studio — alive, motionless, already erased — while his works circulate without him and he lets his art pass to another.
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A painter literally vanishes into his own exhibition while his work walks away without him—it's the kind of premise that could be pretentious garbage, but Konaté commits to the bit hard enough that it becomes genuinely unsettling, which is the only move that matters.
Konaté positions this within a lineage of conceptual art cinema and Surrealist meditation on artistic labor, and the formal precision of the editing—each moment of erasure perfectly calibrated—suggests a filmmaker who understands how to compose absence as a visual argument.
The decision to keep Patrice motionless, present but completely inert while the camera documents the circulation of his work, does all the heavy lifting; it's a single compositional choice that transforms what could be gimmicky into something genuinely haunting.