Como te ve una amiga
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Jelen García, Andrea Hoyos
Genres: coming-of-age, documentary, experimental
Tones: contemplative, tender
Isa and César share a supervised apartment. Isa, a film student, compulsively records her first weeks there, documenting the routines of their shared life.
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The premise sounds like a therapy exercise—two people in a box, one obsessively documenting—but García and Hoyos somehow dodge the predictable emotional crescendo and just *sit* with the strangeness of surveillance-as-intimacy, which is genuinely unsettling in a way most shorts aren't brave enough to be.
There's a deliberate formalism at work here, a lineage that stretches back through diary cinema and Vérité toward something more structuralist; the decision to let the documentary apparatus become the subject rather than transparent means the film knows exactly what tradition it's interrogating.
The choice to let Isa's compulsive recording create the film's own grammar—where the act of documenting *becomes* the emotional arc—is the kind of formal decision that transforms a three-minute sketch into something that feels inevitable and necessary.