Amo
2016 · 17m · España
Directed by Alex Gargot
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
An android programmer obsessed with reproducing human anatomy and intelligence is led into the darkest corners of his own mind by Mia, his little domestic android.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A programmer trying to build consciousness accidentally becomes the subject of his own creation's psychological vivisection—it's a horror-sci-fi premise that flips the usual AI-threatens-humanity script into something genuinely unsettling and weird, the kind of inversion that makes you uncomfortable for the right reasons.
Gargot situates this firmly in the lineage of body horror and philosophical SF cinema, with precise control over tone and a deliberate pacing that recalls Tarkovsky's engagement with interiority; the formal restraint here—what's *not* shown—positions the film squarely in the tradition of cerebral speculative drama.
The decision to make Mia the psychological aggressor rather than a passive tool reframes the entire power dynamic, and in a 17-minute runtime, that single narrative inversion—combined with what feels like a carefully calibrated sound design for the android's perspective—transforms a familiar premise into something genuinely disorienting.