El viaje circular
2009 · 8m · España
Directed by Alejandro Gaviño Spinner, Javier Gómez Bello
Genres: essay film, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal
A videopoetic journey in which each stop is a reflection on identity, love, destiny or artistic creation itself.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
It's formally restrained when it could be truly weird—the videopoetic framework promises surrealism but mostly delivers tasteful montage, which feels like a missed opportunity to actually *break* the form rather than genuflect to it.
A disciplined essay-film that positions itself squarely in the lineage of structural poetry and expanded cinema, where each compositional choice—the pacing between reflections, the visual metaphors binding identity to landscape—demonstrates a filmmaker thinking rigorously about form as meaning.
The decision to treat each 'stop' as its own contained visual argument, rather than stitching them into a conventional narrative arc, lets the budget constraints become an asset—forcing precision over spectacle, and making every cut between stations do conceptual work.