L’Effet Koulechov is a debut thriller by Fanny Gusciglio following Louise, a film editor whose artistic career stalls after postpartum depression. When an enigmatic project offer emerges, she descends into a paranoid spiral, discovering danger within the film work itself. The novel weaponizes cinema and montage as sources of psychological disturbance, literalizing the Kuleshov Effect—the montage principle where meaning emerges from image juxtaposition. Blending noir sensibilities with metafictional meditation on cinema’s power to shape perception and reality, the work operates as both psychological thriller and love letter to film as an artistic medium. Its engagement with cinema theory, paranoia, and the darker psychological dimensions of creative labor positions it within the dark alternative literary sphere.
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