Moche
2026 · 2m
Directed by Oriane Caulet
Genres: biography, drama, essay film
Tones: contemplative, tender
An actress who has always struggled with her image tells her story, in a companion piece to the director's film 'Brut de Fonderie'.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A 2-minute essay film about image and self-presentation could've been navel-gazing pablum, but pairing it as a companion piece to 'Brut de Fonderie' suggests Caulet's doing something structurally weird with diptych logic—the kind of formal gamble most scouts skip over.
Caulet situates herself within the essay film lineage while interrogating autobiography itself; the companion-piece structure invokes a deliberate intertextuality that rewards viewers who've encountered 'Brut de Fonderie,' marking this as the kind of considered, dialogic work that justifies serious critical attention.
Two minutes is nothing, but Caulet's decision to answer her own previous work rather than stand alone suggests the real craft here is in how she's edited the relationship between films—a single structural choice that reframes everything.