Mars.
2026 · 2m
Directed by Jean-Baptiste Aziere
Genres: drama, experimental, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, dark, melancholic
Dominated by a red star, a man crawls through the darkness; pushed on by a voice that despises him, he draws on his last strength and tries to bring the star back to him.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A man crawling toward a star that hates him—it's perverse, it's backwards, and it refuses to resolve into metaphor or meaning; Aziere builds a two-minute torture chamber that other scouts would call 'too abstract' and that's exactly why it works.
Mars situates itself in a lineage of experimental cinema concerned with the body's relationship to cosmic indifference, with considered pacing and sound design that recalls structural film practice, though the hostility of the voice-over pushes against that tradition rather than settling into it.
The decision to let the despising voice drive the entire moral geography—making the man's crawl feel less like journey and more like self-punishment—is what transforms what could be a visual exercise into something that actually breaks your chest in two minutes.