El futuro
2018 · 1m · Perú
Directed by Franz Harvis
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
In 2070, with a quarter of the world suffering the ravages of global warming, this is the story of María Font.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A one-minute climate catastrophe film about a woman in 2070 sounds like every other eco-anxious sci-fi tract, which is probably why it works—Harvis trusts the premise to do the heavy lifting and uses constraint as rebellion.
The formal restraint here—compressing a climate narrative into sixty seconds—recalls the precision of structural filmmaking, though the film's place in the lineage of near-future portraiture remains to be determined by its actual execution.
One minute is brutal, and Harvis's choice to center a single character (María Font) rather than spectacle suggests the entire weight lands on performance and a single visual or sonic decision that either crystallizes the world or collapses it.