El puertito
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Marga Saenz
Genres: documentary, experimental, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
At the end of Fuerteventura's paved roads lies El Puertito, a cemetery of caravans that seem inhabited — a wild, salt-flavoured landscape where reality and fiction mix like a dystopian film set.
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A graveyard of caravans that *might* be alive—Saenz refuses to settle the question, and that refusal is the whole point. It's the kind of premise that makes you uncomfortable precisely because it won't perform the genre it's wearing.
Saenz situates herself in a lineage of landscape-as-character cinema, but the three-minute constraint forces a formal rigor that feels contemporary; the editing breathes with the restraint of someone aware of both Apichatpong and the documentary essay tradition.
The salt-crusted sound design is doing invisible work here—it's what transforms a visual inventory of abandoned caravans into something genuinely uncanny, a single sonic choice that collapses the distance between documentary observation and fever dream.