(Un)Becoming
2026 · 2m
Directed by Florine Nuesch, Kim Nuesch
Genres: drama, essay film, experimental
Tones: dark, provocative, theatrical
Starring Carla Juri, a feminist art film weaves visual metaphor with a performative slam poem to confront attacks on women's rights, moving between vulnerability, defiance, and rage.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Slam poetry + art film sounds like the kind of worthy-cause mashup that makes me run screaming, but the fact that Nüesch and Nüesch are brazen enough to let Carla Juri *perform* rage rather than perform sensitivity is genuinely subversive — they've made a feminist agitprop that doesn't apologize for being didactic.
The weaving of performative text with visual metaphor places this precisely in the lineage of structural feminist cinema and contemporary essay-film practice; what matters is whether the editing architecture holds the volatility together, and the 2-minute constraint suggests they've made a curatorial choice about compression that's worth examining closely.
Two minutes to move between vulnerability, defiance, and rage without a single wasted gesture — the real achievement here is likely the choice to let Juri's *stillness* carry the weight between the poem's eruptions, turning bodies and silence into the actual cinematic decision.