MascaraDE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Célian Lorion
Genres: dark comedy, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, theatrical
In the privacy of a bathroom with absurd decor, Hana, a young woman of sharp perfectionism, suddenly loses her footing in a single stroke of makeup.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A two-minute bathroom descent into absurdist collapse—Lorion's refusal to explain *why* the mascara stroke becomes a total unraveling is exactly the kind of premise that makes people uncomfortable, and that's the whole point.
Theatrically composed and formally aware of its own artifice, MascaraDE situates itself in a lineage of darkly comic body horror; the mise-en-scène works in conversation with surrealist tradition, though the brevity occasionally outpaces its conceptual weight.
That single stroke—the moment control ruptures—is the entire film, and Lorion trusts it completely; the decision to make catastrophe arrive not with fanfare but with one impeccable gesture of misdirection is what transforms a bathroom vignette into something genuinely disarming.