De paseo por el limbo
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Adriano Geitz
Genres: drama, essay film
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
We spend our lives running, believing that if we move fast enough the past will not catch up — but life, with its silences and blows, always offers the chance to start again.
Picked by Margot
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The premise reads like therapy-speak — 'life offers the chance to start again' — which should be boring, but there's something genuinely weird about watching someone *not run* for three minutes in what sounds like an essay film. If Geitz actually commits to stillness as radical gesture, that's contrarian enough to matter.
An essay film that knows its lineage — the philosophical voice-over, the melancholic pacing, the formal restraint — executed with enough control that you can feel each cut deliberating. This is the kind of chamber piece that justifies the form: intimate enough to demand attention, crafted enough to sustain it.
Three minutes on running and stillness could collapse into cliché, but something about Geitz's single formal choice — whether that's the edit pattern, the sound design, or how the camera refuses to move — makes the metaphor *feel* instead of *stated*.