OBJECTIF SALE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Anouk Pont
Genres: dark comedy, drama, thriller
Tones: dark, darkly comic, provocative
A fashion photographer at the end of his rope, in his quest for 'beauty,' drags his model and his crew along to ever more sordid locations and ever more extreme horizons, without the slightest qualm.
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A two-minute film about a photographer's descent into moral bankruptcy masquerading as artistic pursuit—it's a delicious inversion of the 'tortured genius' trope that actually *earns* its darkness instead of romanticizing it. Most shorts would flinch at this premise; Pont leans in without apology.
Pont demonstrates sophisticated control over the escalation, each location a deliberate frame in a visual argument about complicity and aesthetic corruption; the formal restraint makes the darkness land harder than sensationalism ever could.
The coup here is restraint—what Pont *doesn't* show of the photographer's face, and how the crew's silent discomfort becomes the actual subject, does more narrative work than any exposition dump could manage on a two-minute clock.