Decisiones
2013 · 13m · España
Directed by Íñigo Gómez, Iván Miñambres
Genres: experimental, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
A dishevelled young man wanders through a disconcerting dream full of dilemmas rising from the darkness, guided by a man who insists he resolve them but cannot show him the way out.
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A guide who won't guide, dilemmas that refuse resolution, a dream that actively resists narrative logic—Decisiones does the thing most shorts are too polite to attempt, which is make frustration the actual subject.
The film's debt to surrealist cinema is formally apparent, yet it struggles to achieve the compositional precision of its lineage; the dreamscape accumulates incident rather than building architectural tension.
The choice to keep the guide figure opaque and unhelpful—present but obstinate—transforms what could've been a generic fever dream into something genuinely uncanny, and that single tonal commitment does the heavy lifting across 13 minutes.