Generación perdida
2018 · 12m · España
Directed by J.A. Martínez-Larrosa
Genres: documentary, mystery, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, surreal
In the middle of the 21st century, journalist Marta Molina begins a new investigative task in Spain into a generation whose existence has become an enigma: some claim to have seen them, others to have spoken with them.
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It's doing the 'missing generation' premise competently enough, but the film seems more interested in aesthetic mood than actually *committing* to the weird—the surrealism feels like a safety net rather than the point, and that's where it loses me.
Martínez-Larrosa's deployment of documentary form as a container for the uncanny sits in a lineage of speculative essay-films—Marker, Farocki—where the rigor of the investigative structure becomes the real subject, and the measured pacing lets the unsettling implications accumulate without reaching.
The choice to frame everything through Marta's archival search—interviews, missing footage, the gaps themselves—means the absence does more narrative work than any explanation could; that structural restraint is what makes the 12 minutes land with weight.