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2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Robert Sirvent Tolsa
Genres: essay film, experimental
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
The film asks who interferes in our lives, decisions and feelings — family, institutions, media, social networks — and whether we ourselves, in a chameleonic balancing act, are sabotaging our own essence.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Sirvent Tolsa is asking the right question—who's really pulling the strings?—but the essay-film format feels like the safe answer, the expected vehicle for this kind of philosophical hand-wringing. I wanted him to *break* the form, not genuflect to it.
A formally precise meditation on interference and autonomy that situates itself squarely in the essay-film tradition while maintaining rigorous control over its surreal register—the kind of short that clarifies what the form can do when a director respects both its conceptual and aesthetic lineage.
The chameleonic performance across the three-minute runtime is the fulcrum here; it's the sustained choice to mirror and fragment the self that transforms what could've been a static philosophical prompt into something that *feels* like living contradiction rather than simply illustrating one.