Tohé Commaret: A Cinema of Complicity

A Franco-Chilean artist based in Paris, Tohé Commaret works at the intersection of experimental cinema and documentary. Through her prolific body of enigmatic short films, she has developed a distinctive visual language that challenges conventional storytelling and cinematic form. Exploring human experience through a poetic lens, her work weaves together memory, identity, and sociopolitical themes. Her subtle interplay of image and sound creates immersive worlds where intimacy meets broader societal issues, often blurring reality and fiction while interrogating art as a form of resistance against power structures, marginalization, and the enduring traces of history on contemporary identity.
Her presentation at Batalha Centro de Cinema focuses on her humorous depiction of sisterhood, and of women’s complicity and solidarity. Mustard (2023) follows two women—seemingly sex workers—who engage in a series of playful phone calls to entice and provoke a client into joining them for a threesome. Placenta Chips (2022) takes the form of a DIY video in which a teenage character humorously explains her choice not to have children, in an unscripted, improvised, and playful vignette.

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