Mienne
2026 · 2m
Directed by Herinandrasana Randrianantenaina
Genres: drama, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
A man collects beauty along his walk, wanting to possess it so completely that he would tear it away from whatever carries it.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A two-minute meditation on possessive desire that could've been a Tumblr aesthetic post, except Randrianantenaina commits fully to the grotesque logic of it—tearing beauty from its source isn't decadence, it's compulsion, and that perverse clarity is genuinely unsettling in a way most 'dark surrealism' never bothers to be.
The restraint here is remarkable; in 120 seconds, this locates itself in a lineage of body-horror and psychological portraiture (Švankmajer via contemporary lens) while the formal composition—each moment of collection photographed with museum-piece stillness—transforms a simple walk into something ritualistic and deeply considered.
That recurring decision to hold on the collector's face rather than linger on the beautiful things being taken—it reframes the entire film from spectacle into pathology, and on what appears to be a minimal budget, that single editing choice does the work of a feature-length psychological study.