Jorgiasis
2018 · 1m · España
Directed by Alejandro Sanz Fraile
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal
After a successful life devoted to cinema, a man develops a strange illness called 'jorgiasis', a multiple-personality disorder whose treatment requires techniques of introspection.
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A one-minute film about a cinephile getting psychological fragmentation from cinema itself—it's cheeky enough to work, but the execution feels more thesis statement than subversion; Sanz Fraile plants the seed without really letting it rot.
The meta-textual apparatus is neat—a director's illness *about* cinema, framed as introspection—but a minute doesn't give the formal rigor to do that lineage justice; it reads more like a conceptual sketch than a finished work of considered craft.
In 60 seconds, Sanz Fraile commits to a single formal choice—burying the film's meditation on fragmentation inside the structure itself—and that structural discipline is exactly what makes the premise land instead of collapse into clever wordplay.