Consciencia
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Willy Suárez
Juanjo and Ignacio argue over whose fault it is that they are stranded in the middle of Fuerteventura because of an electric car.
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A three-minute argument about a stranded EV in the Canaries sounds like the kind of high-concept absurdist setup everyone's doing now—but Suárez seems genuinely interested in the petty blame-shifting itself, which is either brilliant or aggressively mid.
The film's restraint—three minutes, two men, one desert—recalls a lineage of minimalist European comedy-dramas that prize dialogue rhythm and spatial precision; whether Suárez executes that discipline is the question.
The entire film hinges on how Suárez shoots the dead air between accusations—whether he finds the visual or sonic poetry in two people already resigned to their own failure—and if he does, it transforms a premise that could be a sketch into something genuinely unsettling.