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2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Jan Guilleumot
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
In a world where reality hurts, Jordi and his mother seek comfort in the virtual world, unaware that the more they connect, the more disconnected they are.
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The premise is almost there—reality-hurts-so-escape-to-virtual is well-trodden grief territory—but Guilleumot resists the obvious sermon, which is either restraint or missed opportunity depending on your tolerance for ambiguity.
A formally composed meditation on disconnection that inherits from the contemplative sci-fi lineage (think Tarkovsky's restraint applied to digital estrangement), though the three-minute runtime leaves the thematic inquiry feeling more sketch than fully realized argument.
The film hinges on the sound design—the digital hum creeping over acoustic space as Jordi and his mother sink deeper—and that singular choice of letting the **absence** of natural sound do the emotional work is what elevates what could've been a PSA into something genuinely mournful.