RAVAGE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Aurélien Sallé
Genres: essay film, experimental, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, provocative, surreal
She wants to paint, write, play music; facing her, an army of robots pours out an uninterrupted flood of perfect, standardised images, sounds and words that threatens to drown all singularity - a film deliberately made in a handmade fashion, strings and imperfections visible, to affirm that it was made by humans.
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Finally, a sci-fi that doesn't pretend to be neutral—it's a straight-up *polemic* dressed as a fever dream, which is exactly how you smuggle a real idea past the algorithm priests. The visible strings aren't cute; they're a middle finger to the very perfection the film is warning about.
Sallé's essay-film syntax feels indebted to both structural cinema and contemporary digital-age anxieties, though the formal conceit—imperfection as method—risks collapsing the distance between medium and message into something less than the sum of its parts.
The decision to let the handmade grain and visible construction show through is deceptively simple, but it's what transforms what could've been heavy-handed commentary into something that *feels* like resistance rather than just depicting it.