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POSEUR | Omeleto

A photographer is obsessed with a model. POSEUR is used with permission from Allan Zhang Tran. Learn more at https://allanzhangtran.com. Ally is a fashion photographer who often takes test shots with models adding to their portfolios, in addition to the typical photoshoots for clients. Shy and withdrawn, Ally was once an aspiring model but found herself on the other side of the camera, where her eye for beauty is keen and sharp. One day she does a shoot with Laura, a model with whom she builds a friendly rapport. Underneath that friendliness, though, is a deeper fascination with Laura's striking beauty. When Laura asks Ally to shoot some extra shots for her portfolio, Ally agrees. But on the day of the shoot, Ally reveals the depths of her fixation, just as things spiral out of control. Directed and written by Allan Zhang Tran, this short horror-thriller is a visually stylish exploration of the intersection of beauty, loathing and destruction, tracing how deep one photographer's obsession with visual perfection will go to achieve an ideal. In the tradition of classic psychological horror films like REPULSION, the film is as visually stylish as its fashion milieu, with elegant compositions, luminously neutral colors and moody, cool-toned light. But as its dark tale unfolds, that beauty reveals itself as cold and even inhuman, to an unexpectedly sinister extent. The storytelling is as composed and deliberate as its main character's approach to image-making, the rhythms of the editing just off-kilter enough to create a sense of unease. We meet Ally at work after a shoot with Laura: Ally is lost in her thoughts as she shoots a hypnotically seductive set of images with the model, as if caught in the dream of the fantasy she's making. But she's startled back to reality when Laura chat with her like a co-worker. The scenes alternate between these "normal" interactions where Ally feels socially awkward to more heightened, fluid ones that immerse us in Ally's unnerving subjective headspace, and the gap between them is expressed skillfully in the film's visual craftsmanship and sound design. As Ally, actor Eva Lin Feindt doesn't have a lot of dialogue in the film, focused as its storytelling is on visuals. But she has a haunted mien, one whose darkness flits unsettlingly in and out of her dealings with Laura, played by actor Daniella Silva with a friendly guilelessness. Feindt's performance always stays subtle, even as Ally begins to dissolve the borders of her outer and inner world, to destabilizing effect. Just how dark Ally's disturbance goes is the mystery and focus of the arc of POSEUR, building to a chilling reveal. It's well-handled and more suggestive than explicit, but the tastefulness of the craftsmanship can't hide the grotesque brutality of Ally's ultimate vision. But it also reveals the self-hatred and inhumanity of beauty standards -- as well as the world that makes these ideals -- and how they can make us feel if we internalize them too deeply. Like the most arresting snapshots of fashion photographs, the final images of the film are provocative, riveting and unforgettable -- but it all comes at a considerable cost, to both audience and maker.