Cara de Luna
2012 · 7m · España
Directed by Carlos Nicoll, Daniel Hernández, Enrique Diego, Rocío Galea
Based on Jack London's story, a farmer's hatred and obsession towards his neighbour force him to take a firm decision.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Four directors on a seven-minute Jack London adaptation sounds like a recipe for committee-made blandness, but if they've actually cracked something weird in the obsession angle—some formal perversity in how they stage the hatred—then fine, prove me wrong.
A literary adaptation that respects its source material while understanding how to compress psychological intensity into formal restraint; the collaboration suggests a deliberate artistic statement about collective storytelling applied to London's exploration of rural enmity.
The real question is whether four filmmakers found one clarifying visual or sound decision that justifies their collective vision—whether there's a single moment of restraint or repetition that crystallizes the neighbour's obsession into something tactile rather than merely stated.