2026法国短片
In a setting that is part theatre stage, part television studio, three characters are searching for treasure on an imaginary island. Under the eye of the cameras, they play and make love. But within this illusion, the song of the omniscient and invisible narrator that is the Sun worms its way into their minds, stoking hatred and transforming the quest into collective paranoia.
Inspired by Baroness Eloise Wehrborn de Bosquet de Wagner’s bloody sojourn in the Galapagos Islands and the theories of Alexander Chizhevsky concerning the link between solar cycles and human politics, Spectres on the Beach is a speculative fable about the feeling of powerlessness in the face of ecological crises. But this is no standard apocalyptical film: climate change is depicted here as the rise of imaginary waves, set to the rhythm of the songs of a Sun with an auto-tuned human voice. Somewhere between a child’s ravings, a grotesque game and fatal tragedy, the film satirises our fears of disaster by transforming them into an absurd quest in which humanity loses its footing within its own system.
Using models and deliberately naive, the film reveals its artifices in order to break down the walls of fiction. This transparency becomes a critical space for an economy of extraction, since, in hunting for the treasure, the characters paradoxically end up digging their own graves.