¡Corten!
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Sergio Gil, Mariano de la Torre
Genres: dark comedy, experimental, horror
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
Two friends meet in an abandoned place to shoot a Notodofilmfest short about two friends who meet in an abandoned place to shoot a Notodofilmfest short — and end up starring in their own snuff movie.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A premise so recursively perverse it makes most shorts look like they're still in film school — two friends making a short about two friends making a short that becomes a snuff film is exactly the kind of "wait, WHAT?" substrate that separates the bored from the genuinely alive.
The recursion here is clever but risks collapsing under its own conceptual weight; where it succeeds is in the discipline of the execution, the way the formal mirror structure holds just long enough to become genuinely unsettling rather than simply clever.
The kill is in the tonal pivot—watching it shift from indie-film-about-indie-film into something genuinely dark hinges on a single beat of commitment from the directors, and they don't blink.