2013 · 1m · España
Directed by Iván Caballero
Genres: dark comedy, satire, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
In a very near dystopian future, hipsters have not yet gone extinct and still wander the streets glued to their mobile phones.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A one-minute obliteration of tech-culture narcissism wrapped in the exact formal language of the thing it's mocking — it's the rare satire that doesn't explain the joke, just lets the dystopia and the hipsters occupy the same airless space. Most scouts would see this as a disposable hot-take; it's actually a surgical strike.
Caballero's compression recalls the tradition of structural satire—Godard's contempt for his subjects channeled through formal constraint—though the premise risks collapsing into Instagram caption rather than cinema; the execution would need to demonstrate formal rigor beyond the conceptual quip.
The whole thing hinges on the sound design and pacing of how those phone notifications layer and overlap—one wrong rhythm and this is just a tweet, but here the sonic claustrophobia actually does the work that a two-hour screenplay would botch.