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2026 · 2m
Directed by Mayline Cornet
Genres: drama, essay film
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Sitting alone in her bathroom, a young woman on the phone talks about a video that struck her: that of a boy filming his daily life in a housing estate.
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Everyone wants to make films *about* screens and scrolling now—Cornet's actual move is stranger: she lets the phone conversation *become* the film, turns voyeurism into intimacy without irony or self-flagellation, and somehow that's more unsettling than any meta-commentary could be.
The essay-film lineage here is deliberate and disciplined—a 2-minute telephone monologue that echoes Chantal Akerman's durational philosophy while anchoring itself in the specificity of contemporary image-consumption, positioning the bathroom as both confessional and gallery.
The entire film hinges on the decision to keep the camera fixed on her face while *she* describes watching someone else's footage—that recursive layering of mediation, performer seeing performer, transforms what could've been a lazy Instagram critique into something genuinely alive.