TRACK 8 by Yasmina Chavanne | France | 2026 

Duration: 00:08:15

In a flooded subway, a young woman drifts through hallucinatory visions before helping her mute, fragile mother perform a simple task: buying a metro ticket. Track 8 is a visceral descent into the deafening silence of illness and the inherited trauma that binds a mother and daughter.

DIRECTOR : Yasmina Chavanne
SOUNDTRACK : Smith Kline, Stéphane Laporte (as Domotic)
CAST : Mona Alward, Sofia Asfi
SOUND MIX : Maxime Berland
ADDITIONAL IMAGERY : Kling AI

CONTACTS : https://eeriefeels.com/   @yasmina.chavanne 

Track 8 unfolds in three acts, each marked by a shift in color and reality, reflecting a mind struggling to grasp its own narrative.

The journey begins in green. On an MP3 player, tracks scroll to Track 8. A voice calls out, “Mona.” In a blue fever musical nightmare, a woman wrapped in an emergency blanket drifts, motionless, through a flooded subway, her hospital bracelet catching the light on passing faces. Gradually, it becomes clear that something is wrong. Nothing is real. A deluge surges, the music derails, and reality becomes a haunted carousel where bodies resist, rise, and are smashed by the flood, dissolving into chaos. “Mama!”

In magenta, rupture: Mona stands at a subway ticket machine, guiding her mute mother through the trivial task of buying a ticket. What should be simple becomes immense, weighted down by illness and the fragile thread of a bond on the verge of breaking.

Blurring hallucination and documentary, Track 8 is a haunting melody that drags us into the limbo of mental illness and traumatic memory. It is a purgatory, a struggle against erasure.

Director’s statement
Track 8 was born from a need to understand what hides behind my mother’s terrified gaze and the opaque silence that separates us. It is an attempt to reveal how the simplest gesture can carry the tremor of an inner collapse, and to uncover the continuum where generational roles entwine and blur. Track 8 embodies a mental reality: fragmentary, relentless, horrific, tender, and brutal. By allowing synthetic imagery to infiltrate documentary and staged gestures, I aim to render the distrust of a mind that can no longer rely on its own perception, and to show how illness contaminates reality, distorting the world into something that appears familiar yet feels fundamentally wrong.

Bio
Yasmina Chavanne is a production designer and video artist exploring the materialization of inner life through space and image. Her video works experiment with the sensory and dissociative interplay between sound and image, drawing on uncanny

sequences—documentary, staged, and synthetic—to uncover the dysfunctional structures shaping human interactions and perceptions. She worked as a production designer on feature films including Wild Foxes (Belgium, Directors’ Fortnight 2025, Cannes, Valéry Carnoy) and Paula (France, Angela Ottobah, 2023). Track 8 is her first film as a director. She is currently developing two short films: Venus and I Feel Disconnected from My Feelings.

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