Nikon N°16
2026 · 2m
Directed by Alice Desos, Antonin Tanner, Hugo Floquet
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
Two minutes: that is all the time a film crew has left to complete the last shot of a film as the sun sets and the light is perfect — every hand counts, and the film asks whether the most beautiful thing is the final shot or the energy of the team around it.
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Everyone wants to make a film *about* the magic of filmmaking—Desos, Tanner, and Floquet just sidestep the whole self-indulgent trap by making the constraint itself the story, which is either brilliantly efficient or a clever dodge depending on how much you trust the final two minutes.
The formal restraint here—two minutes mirroring the crew's two-minute window—shows real structural discipline, and there's a lineage of cinema-about-cinema from Truffaut onward, but whether this sits with the greats or just the clever meta-exercises remains to be seen.
The decision to let the camera pull back and frame the *team's* choreography rather than fetishize the shot itself—that's the whole film, and it's the kind of reframe that makes you realize how rarely anyone shoots a crew scene without making it about ego.