DESDE LA MIRILLA
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by LAURA TAPIAS MATESANZ
Through the peephole of an anonymous observer, the camera spies on the landing's everyday life, catching neighbour Juan as he takes a phone call, drops his keys and begins to suspect he is being watched.
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A three-minute peephole comedy that could've been a smug meta-joke about surveillance—instead it's weirdly tender and lets paranoia breathe like a living thing. Matesanz commits to the bit without winking, which is exactly when absurdism actually lands.
The formal rigor here is quiet but unmistakable: the fixed frame as moral stance, the editing that lets awkward pauses do the heavy lifting, the way sound design inverts the peephole's voyeuristic promise into something intimate and comic. A controlled study in perspective and complicity.
The genius move is locking the camera to the peephole's circular frame and never breaking it—that single formal constraint transforms a gag about nosy neighbors into something genuinely unsettling, making you complicit in Juan's dawning realization without a single cut away. It's all in that frame decision.