La Roue Tourne
2026 · 2m
Directed by Dionéa Daboville, Aaron Genovesio
Genres: dark comedy, experimental, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
An unusual funeral ceremony takes place, one where even the vacuum cleaners play their part.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A funeral where *vacuum cleaners are mourners*—this is the kind of genuinely deranged premise that makes you question what you just watched, which is exactly the point. Two minutes of pure subversion disguised as ceremony; most scouts would pass, which tells you everything.
The formal restraint here is admirable—Daboville and Genovesio let the absurdist conceit breathe within a classical funeral structure, creating tension between decorum and the surreal. It's a small film that understands its own provocation and doesn't oversell it.
The decision to keep the vacuum cleaners utterly serious, played with the same gravity as human mourners, is what makes this work; that tonal commitment—refusing to wink at the audience—transforms a silly premise into something genuinely unsettling on almost no budget.