Interconectado
2019 · 5m · España
Directed by Itzel Sarmientos
Genres: documentary, drama
Tones: contemplative, provocative
In Mexico, where violence bridges the real and the digital, women join together to raise a united cry demanding justice against gender violence.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Most docs about violence reach for outrage or spectacle—Sarmientos does something weirder, collapsing the boundary between digital and physical terror until you can't tell where the real threat ends and the algorithmic one begins, which is exactly the kind of formal gamble that makes consensus critics squirm.
There's a lineage here—from Agnès Varda's essayistic witness-bearing to contemporary documentary's turn toward collective voice—and Sarmientos honors it while finding her own register, the 5-minute constraint forcing a precision of form that most feature-length docs waste.
The genius move is how she uses digital artifacts and social media as actual texture rather than illustration—not showing screens passively but letting the grain and speed of online violence become the film's visual language itself, which costs nothing but changes everything about what we're watching.