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2014 · 13m · España
Directed by Alberto Herrero Babiloni, Àlex Blat
Genres: experimental, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, surreal
An alarm clock that stops at night can have unpredictable consequences within the chaotic world in which we find ourselves, a world in which each option gives rise to infinite possibilities, where each detail can change our lives: situations, decisions and an absolutely chaotic environment within chance, where sometimes a thread of hope can be traced, a path where the pieces align at the precise instant to create an order within the disorder.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A clock that *stops time* and somehow makes things worse—the premise is delightfully perverse, a trap disguised as salvation that unfolds into complete formal chaos. This is the kind of surrealist reversal that makes you uncomfortable because it actually works, and no other scout would've had the stomach to champion it.
The film's visual architecture—its treatment of temporal loops and recursive imagery—sits in a lineage with Buñuel's formal destabilization, though the execution sometimes overwhelms its own conceptual scaffolding; the editing choices feel genuinely considered even when the narrative resists conventional coherence.
What sells this is the sound design decision: the way silence and ticking become the same thing, collapsing the distinction between stillness and motion through pure audio texture, which transforms a potentially overwrought premise into something tactile and specific on a minimal budget.