Quand l'oeil ne veut pas voir
2026 · 2m
Directed by Lucie Barrier Fenech
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal, tender
In an exhibition, a child gazes in wonder at a portrait — but behind the colours and the light, another image slowly imposes itself: that of hunger, which he sees without filters where the adults look away.
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A child seeing hunger where adults see art—sure, it's a neat inversion, but the surrealism feels more precious than subversive, more festival-circuit than genuinely disorienting. The premise wants to provoke; the execution politely asks permission.
Barrier Fenech constructs a formal meditation on perception and blindness that recalls the gallery-as-threshold tradition of structural cinema, where looking itself becomes the subject; the slow visual imposition of hunger beneath portraiture is a considered compositional choice that earns its layered reading.
Two minutes to collapse the distance between innocence and awareness—the magic here lives in whatever formal choice (a dissolve, a sound shift, the child's stillness) makes that vision bleed through without announcing itself, turning a conceptual premise into something felt rather than explained.