Clemence Audiard, who has built a reputation for attentive, character-driven work, responded not as a passive viewer but as a maker taking notes. Her face remained mostly unreadable, but in the post-screening discussion she spoke about how stillness can be a form of authorship: choosing what not to show, where to hold the lens. She argued that restraint forces collaboration with the audience—the viewer must complete the narrative in the spaces between frames. When asked whether Freeze XX felt like a critique of spectacle, she nodded: the piece resists spectacle by insisting on the grind of the ordinary, the small violences of urban life that never make headlines.