Trajet
2026 · 2m
Directed by Kévin Beaunay
Genres: drama, essay film, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Between interior and exterior, silence and movement, an individual's daily wandering unfolds in a world that never stops, in a short film about time and wear.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Two minutes of a guy walking around—sounds like the kind of meditative nothing that wins festival pity votes, except Beaunay's actually doing something subversive with the gap between interior time and exterior rhythm, making the mundane feel like it's pushing back against you.
Trajet sits comfortably in the lineage of essayistic durational cinema, where editing becomes philosophical argument; the formal restraint and the precise calibration of silence against movement speak to a filmmaker thinking carefully about how time itself can be the subject.
The decision to let the protagonist's footfalls and breath live in the same acoustic space as the city's indifference—that's the hinge the whole film turns on, and it costs nothing but attention and a willingness to trust the viewer to feel the pressure.