Don´t Forget
2013 · 4m · España
Directed by Isaac Berrocal
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, dark
A man lives with hemispatial neglect, a condition that prevents him from perceiving the left side of everything around him, with terrible consequences for his daily life.
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The premise is genuinely unsettling—a neurological condition that literally erases half the world—but the execution feels too respectful of the conceit, like it's afraid to actually *rupture* the viewing experience the way hemispatial neglect should.
Berrocal demonstrates formal sophistication in how the frame itself becomes a site of absence, positioning this squarely in the lineage of experimental cinema that uses constraint as narrative device, though the four-minute runtime somewhat limits the philosophical depth the premise deserves.
The specific choice to compose around the invisible left—what the camera shows versus what the protagonist cannot perceive—creates a devastating gap between viewer and subject that transforms a medical condition into pure cinema; that asymmetry *is* the entire film, and it lands.