Ipdentical
2018 · 10m · España
Directed by Marco Huertas
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, melancholic
In a dystopia with no intellectual property — no creativity, innovation or diversity — Anna sets out in search of the only original song she can still remember.
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A dystopia without creativity is the kind of paradox that makes lesser filmmakers sweat — Huertas leans into it, building a world so suffocating that searching for a song becomes an act of resistance that's quietly hilarious and genuinely unsettling at once.
The film positions itself deliberately within the lineage of dystopian satire while maintaining formal restraint; the melancholic pacing and the visual discipline around scarcity feel indebted to something like Tarkovsky's slowness, bent toward social critique.
The decision to make the entire world a study in repetition and sameness — costumes, architecture, movement — throws all the weight onto that single remembered song, and that structural choice is what transforms a conceptual premise into something emotionally devastating.