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Lightbulb head

Rachel Daucé

France

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Hear the little conflict, which drones on and on and on.
It's always somewhere there, it keeps you awake at night.
What will they do next? How will you counterattack?
How did it even start? It has a momentum of its own now, it's alive, it's eating you up. You can only see the world through its lens.

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Honorable Mention

Du fil à retordre – Alienation

In French, "lightbulb head" is an expression used to refer to an intelligent person in a very pejorative way. Burried memories of school bullying having surfaced as bubbles coming slowly to the surface of consciousness, I felt it was the right time to turn them into something pretty.

Bronze

In French, Going in as in a windmill refers to a popular place. Taking this idiom litterally, I wish to emphasize the influence of our surroundings on our identity through the depiction of a woman whose personnality varies as long as she approaches the mill, but stays identical when  she exits it.

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Nominee

Going in as in a windmill