MIROIR MIROIR
2026 · 2m
Directed by Maxime A. Garreau
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
When she looks in the mirror, Olivia sees a deformed, repulsive monster; following an influencer's advice, the teenager makes up and removes her makeup repeatedly, slowly sinking into madness.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Body-horror vanity spirals aren't new, but the repetition-as-descent gimmick feels thin—influencer culture commentary dressed up in surrealism without the teeth to justify it.
Garreau works in the lineage of psychological horror and the grotesque, though the formal execution here trades subtlety for bluntness; the mirror conceit operates at surface level when it could deepen.
The specificity lives in that recursive makeup ritual—the rhythm of application and removal as mechanical descent, a single formal choice that makes the budget vanish and the idea click.