EN CASA
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by ÁLEX LOVAINE
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal
Told in a single shot with a three-line script, this piece leaves its story to be completed in each viewer's imagination, where every possible branch leads to the same message.
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Three lines and a single shot — most filmmakers would call this a constraint, Lovaine calls it permission. By refusing to narrate the ending, En Casa pulls off the genuinely subversive move: making the viewer's imagination do the heavy lifting, and somehow arriving at the same destination every time.
Formally austere and philosophically ambitious, this work situates itself in a lineage of durational and minimalist cinema — the constraint of one shot, three lines — executed with the kind of restraint that demands active viewing and resists easy consumption.
The gamble here is the single shot itself: by locking the camera and trusting the space to hold meaning, Lovaine eliminates every escape hatch a director usually has, forcing every ounce of storytelling into what the viewer brings rather than what's shown — a technical decision that rewires how narrative actually functions.