Bariku Light
2011 · 10m · España
Directed by Asier Abio
Genres: dark comedy, experimental, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
Feliciano has French fries with light mayonnaise for dinner. It is a boring night until he starts seeing sex on TV — and a story of blood, sweat and mayonnaise begins.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A ten-minute escalation from TV dinner ennui to a fever dream where condiments become existential — this is exactly the kind of premise that makes every other scout nervous, and that's precisely why it lands.
Abio's surrealist syntax is indebted to a lineage of European absurdism, though the digital-era mise-en-scène reads slightly dated in 2011; the editing's commitment to the grotesque registers as formally rigorous even if the conceptual through-line resists conventional interpretation.
The decision to anchor an escalating nightmare in the mundane specificity of *light mayonnaise* — that one detail holding the whole surreal edifice steady — is the kind of grounded absurdity that elevates a midnight-studio experiment into something genuinely unsettling.