ALARMA
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Alejandro Andrino, Sandra Pérez
Genres: dark comedy, experimental, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
A young woman wakes up, turns off her alarm and starts her morning — but the sound keeps repeating, again and again.
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Most people would've made this a anxiety-spiral nightmare or a cute meta-joke; Andrino and Pérez instead commit to the alarm as a *logic* that rewrites reality itself, turning a familiar horror into something genuinely strange and refusing the easy exit. It's the kind of premise that sounds obvious until you see what they actually do with it.
The restraint here is exceptional—three minutes of formal repetition that echoes Beckett and early Kieślowski, where the editing rhythm becomes the subject matter rather than mere technique, positioning the alarm as both narrative engine and philosophical interrogation.
The decision to let the alarm bleed into the image itself, distorting the frame rather than just the soundtrack, is what elevates this from concept to film—it's a single formal choice that makes the surrealism feel inevitable rather than imposed.