3 MINUTOS
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Tristán Torrents
Genres: comedy, experimental, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, theatrical
At a small production company, a young director with delusions of grandeur gathers his team to create a three-minute short; between absurd ideas, egos and the pressure to be original, chaos takes over — until they discover the short has already made itself.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A film about making a film that refuses to be about making a film — the recursion is delicious, and watching a director's desperation for originality become the very engine of something original is exactly the kind of premise that makes consensus scouts squirm. Torrents has weaponized absurdism against the machinery of prestige, and it lands.
The theatrical staging and formal control here echo the meta-cinema lineage of Godard and Kaufman, though the tonal restraint occasionally undercuts its own satirical edge; still, the editing rhythm shows a director aware of how to structure chaos as craft, not mere spectacle.
The decisive move is making the 'found' short indistinguishable from the process itself — that collapse between intention and accident, achieved entirely through pacing and sound design on what must be a shoestring, is the kind of specific formal choice that makes a three-minute sprint feel inevitable rather than rushed.