Anónimo
2018 · 6m · España
Directed by Marisa Lafuente, Néstor Del Castillo
Genres: essay film, experimental
Tones: contemplative, provocative, whimsical
An artist sits down to paint a bison, and the film playfully asks whether cave art was really 'men's work,' rewriting the story of humanity from the very beginning.
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A six-minute essay that weaponizes cave painting against art history's most boring certainty—suddenly prehistoric handprints become a gender war nobody expected to fight, and the film's whimsy is the sharpest blade in the room.
The film situates itself deliberately within the essay-film tradition while interrogating canonical narratives of artistic origin, though its formal playfulness risks undermining the rigor of its historiographic intervention.
The decision to let whimsy and provocation occupy the same space—treating feminist art history as something light rather than polemical—is what makes the argument stick without preaching.