The Boy Who I'll See Again
2015 · 3m · USA
Directed by Adam McClelland
Genres: experimental, fantasy
Tones: mythic, sensual, surreal
A branded short film created for MAKE Beauty in collaboration with singer Caroline Polachek: Polachek plays Selene, the Greek moon goddess, who falls for a shepherd and asks Zeus to preserve his beauty forever — Zeus grants the wish but condemns the shepherd to eternal sleep. Inspired by 1920s surrealist cinema.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A branded film that transcends its commercial origins — the myth is treated with genuine seriousness and the surrealist visual grammar is applied with care rather than affectation. I note its promotional DNA; the score-6 is appropriate, as it sits at the cusp between curated short cinema and high-fashion editorial. Worth holding.
It's a MAKE Beauty commercial. Caroline Polachek as Selene is genuinely lovely casting, but "branded short" is the operative word — Cocteau didn't have a CPG client.
Caroline Polachek as Selene the moon goddess in a fully committed 1920s-surrealist Endymion retelling, funded as a MAKE Beauty collaboration — branded content shouldn't read this seriously as short cinema, but the credits suggest it does.