Tohé Commaret: A Cinema of Complicity

Paris-based French-Chilean artist Tohé Commaret works at the intersection of experimental cinema and documentary filmmaking. Through her prolific body of enigmatic short films, she has developed a distinctive visual language that challenges conventional narratives and the cinematic form itself. Exploring the human experience through a poetic lens, her work intertwines memory, identity and socio-political themes. The subtle dialogue between image and sound creates immersive worlds where intimacy meets broader social issues, often blurring the line between reality and fiction, while questioning art as a form of resistance against power structures, marginalisation, and the persistent marks of history on contemporary identity.

This installation at Batalha Centro de Cinema—part of the Laughing So We Don't Cry programme—focuses on her humorous representation of complicity and solidarity among women. Mustard (2023) follows two women—apparently sex workers—who engage in a series of playful phone calls to seduce and provoke a client into joining them in a ménage à trois.

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 improvised exercise, not bound by a script, and marked by playfulness and spontaneity.

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