DISTRANCO
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Robert Sirvent
Genres: documentary, essay film, satire
Tones: contemplative, dark, provocative
Through the luminous slogans of the digital era's great heralds, the film listens carefully to their own words to expose the price we will pay for digitising all of life.
Picked by Margot
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It's a essay-doc collage that *could* be preachy algorithmic critique, but Sirvent actually lets the tech prophets indict themselves—which is refreshingly grim and cuts against the usual "tech bad" sermon. Three minutes of pure subversion dressed up as montage.
Sirvent situates this firmly in the lineage of Harun Farocki and Chris Marker—found-footage satire as formal argument—and the rigor of that assembly, letting language do the cutting rather than images, feels like genuine essay cinema. The craft is in the restraint.
The singular move here is the sound decision to let the corporate slogans *breathe* against silence instead of drowning them in a score, which forces you to actually hear what they're saying—one edit choice that collapses the distance between manipulation and meaning.