GPS
2008 · 8m · España
Directed by Diego Sanchidrián Rubio
Genres: dark comedy, satire, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, darkly comic
To set a new course for his life, Javier buys a GPS navigator that will do much more than take him where he wants to go — something that always tells him which road to take, where to stop and when he has reached his destination.
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A GPS that becomes your life's autocomplete—a premise so stupidly perfect it bypasses satire and lands in genuine existential horror, the kind of subversive dark comedy that makes you uncomfortable before you even realize you should be uncomfortable.
Sanchidrián Rubio operates within a lineage of sci-fi parables about technological autonomy (Tati, Marker), but the film's formal restraint—its willingness to let the absurdity breathe without over-clarifying—situates it as a considered meditation rather than a gimmick.
The turning point lives in a single cut: the moment Javier stops questioning the GPS and accepts its instruction as inevitable, compressed into a gesture so economical it does the work of a five-minute scene, and that economy is what makes the whole conceit sting.