Amistad cupcake
2019 · 4m · España
Directed by Jaime Bartolomé
Tones: darkly comic, humorous
A cupcake masterclass imparted by Lupe, the great spiritual guru of cupcakes, is interrupted by two friends whose friendship is about to blow up over an unfortunate Instagram unfollow, in a short comedy about friendship in the age of social media.
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Nobody makes a short about Instagram beef disguised as a spiritual cupcake masterclass—it's absurd enough to actually work, and the fact that it treats both the friendship collapse and baking instruction with equal deadpan weight is exactly the kind of subversive premise that makes people uncomfortable before they admit it's brilliant.
The film's structural conceit—layering intimate social rupture over instructional flatness—recalls the deadpan formalism of mid-2010s digital comedy, though it leans perhaps too heavily on millennial anxiety rather than finding a more durable emotional core beneath the satire.
The single decision that makes this land is the tonal lock between Lupe's serene, unflappable delivery and the escalating chaos of the friendship imploding around her—that contrast does all the work, and Bartolomé holds it with real discipline across four minutes.