VAGUE À L'ÂME
2026 · 2m
Directed by Douglas Legend
Genres: drama, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, mythic, surreal
In a chapel, Gustave, a man with a heart of stone, confronts Medusa, a mystical creature, in an encounter outside of time, on the border between myth and humanity.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Medusa-as-tender-counterpoint to a petrified man is clever enough, but the surrealism feels more atmospheric than subversive—it's mythology doing what mythology's supposed to do, which is exactly the kind of reverent genre play that puts me to sleep.
Legend situates this encounter in the formal vocabulary of chapel iconography and timelessness, where two archetypal forces meet as equals in a space between registers; the 2-minute constraint becomes a deliberate formal choice, compressing myth into a single moment of mutual recognition.
The decision to hold on Gustave's face as Medusa approaches—letting the actor's stillness do the work of his petrified heart rather than reaching for visual effects—is what transforms a beautiful premise into something genuinely unnerving on a micro-budget.