El after del mundo
2022 · 12m · Argentina
Directed by Florentina González
Genres: animation, dark comedy, fantasy
Tones: absurdist, surreal, whimsical
After humanity's end, two ghosts in sportswear, Fluor and Carlix, wander the ruins of civilization — one hunting for Wi-Fi, the other for the head of a giant cetacean.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A post-apocalyptic buddy comedy where the actual stakes are Wi-Fi and cetacean taxidermy—this is the kind of premise that makes everyone else in the room uncomfortable, which is exactly why it works. González leans into the absurdist tension so hard that the surrealism stops being window dressing and becomes the entire argument.
The animation situates itself in a lineage of Eastern European absurdist traditions, though the tonal control wavers between whimsy and genuine dread; the formal rigor is there in the design work, but the script's commitment to its own logic feels occasional rather than architectural.
The decision to make both protagonists ghosts in sportswear—treating the end of civilization with the same casual energy as athleisure—is the single choice that anchors the whole thing and justifies the budget constraints with pure conceptual clarity.