IGNOSIS
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Eduardo Soto Rasch
Genres: dark comedy, sci-fi, thriller
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, tense
Two friends spend a night talking amid laughter, smoke, beers, and theories, wondering what remains of being human when artificial intelligence seems to do everything better; what starts as light banter gradually becomes an unsettling reflection on identity, purpose, and the thin line separating creator from creation.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
It's competent late-night-philosophy-as-sci-fi, which is fine, but the premise—two guys worried about AI—feels like the 500th short to chase that anxiety without actually subverting it; Rasch's a solid technician, but I need the *weird* twist that makes me reconsider the whole thing, and this plays it pretty straight.
There's a deliberate restraint in the staging and dialogue rhythm that recalls conversations-in-rooms cinema from a particular lineage—think Linklater's early work—and the tonal modulation from comedy into existential dread shows real control, even if the thematic stakes are somewhat familiar terrain.
The entire weight lands on the moment where the banter stops and one of them realizes something irreversible about themselves—and Rasch holds that silence just long enough that the viewer completes the thought instead of being told it, which is exactly the kind of economic choice that makes a three-minute argument feel like it matters.