La Pelle et la Bête
2026 · 2m
Directed by Romain Thirion
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
A construction worker makes a disturbing discovery, viscous and sublime, that could overturn the balance of power between earth and iron.
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A construction worker finds something that makes earth *win* against human infrastructure—it's the opposite of every tech-worship sci-fi beats you expect, and Thirion plays it with genuine unease instead of spectacle. Two minutes to flip the entire premise of civilization versus nature.
Thirion situates himself in the lineage of body-horror and land-based cinema (Tarkovsky's geological patience, folk-horror's soil-deep dread) while maintaining rigorous formal control—the visceral discovery and its contemplative aftermath refuse easy genre resolution.
The choice to keep the 'disturbing discovery' tactile and undefined rather than reveal it clearly is the entire film; that restraint, combined with a construction worker's ordinary labor as anchor, transforms a two-minute window into something that lodges itself far deeper.