NOUVELLE TOILE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Jean-Rémy Martinez Vicat, Alix Andre-Kellershohn
Tones: contemplative, whimsical
Monique takes her niece Léa to the preview of the brand-new canvas by Wadis, her favourite painter; facing the conceptual artwork, the aunt's enthusiasm collides with the young girl's scepticism as all eyes turn to the curtain hiding the new work.
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The scouts
Two minutes of people staring at a curtain waiting for art to justify itself—it's almost too on-the-nose a jab at institutional reverence, which makes it insufferable in exactly the way that matters; the film knows it's annoying and doesn't apologize, which is the only reason it works.
Vicat and Andre-Kellershohn construct a formally elegant collision between institutional expectation and unguarded skepticism, where the editing breath between Monique's faith and Léa's doubt becomes the real artwork—a film that understands the grammar of anticipation and sits confidently within the tradition of conceptual comedy.
The genius lives in that single cut to the child's face mid-enthusiasm: one unfiltered moment of doubt that demolishes the entire cathedral of taste the aunt has built, and suddenly a two-minute frame becomes a master class in how much honesty can fit in a glance.