MLLE COSMETIK
2026 · 2m
Directed by Olivier Nelli
Tones: contemplative, dark, provocative
Portrait of an influencer trapped in a system where beauty, imposed by social media, conditions success. The film carries a warning that it contains images liable to disturb some viewers.
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Finally, a film that weaponizes the influencer genre against itself—not with tired irony but with actual teeth, the kind of dark satire that makes you uncomfortable because it's *right*. Nelli's got the contrarian instinct that most shorts fumble: he's not warning us about social media, he's showing us the machinery eating its own.
Nelli situates himself squarely in the lineage of critical portraiture—echoes of Tao Ruspoli's documentary instinct mixed with the formal provocations of Gaspar Noé—and the result is a work that understands both the visual language of influencer culture and how to subvert it with composed, deliberate craft.
The decision to trap the frame *within* the aesthetic constraints of social media itself—rather than film it from outside—is the move that makes this work; it's a single formal choice that collapses the distance between subject and viewer, and on a two-minute budget that's everything.