Moonwalker
2026 · 2m
Directed by Matthias Guilhem-Ducleon
Tones: contemplative, surreal
One of the last Moonwalkers has just finished a conference at the Cité de l'Espace; plagued by relentless headaches, he is taken by his assistant to seek an urgent MRI scan before their flight, and five little stories become entangled around them.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The premise wants to be weird—a moonwalker getting an MRI, five stories tangling around a medical crisis—but it plays it too straight, too reverent toward its own concept; the surrealism feels more like window dressing than actual subversion.
Guilhem-Ducleon constructs a formally ingenious nested narrative that recalls the best of contemporary European cinema, where the frame of the MRI becomes both literal container and metaphorical vessel; the restraint of the 2-minute form forces each interlocking story into crystalline precision.
The decision to anchor everything around the electromagnetic hum of the MRI—letting that sound design carry the thematic weight while the five stories orbit it—is the kind of invisible-but-everything choice that transforms a clever premise into something genuinely felt.