La atmósfera de la Luna
2012 · 14m · España
Directed by Jon Rivero
Genres: experimental, romance, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, surreal, whimsical
During one night journey, Aroah and Julián plunge into an accelerated chronicle of sensations and the incoherence of love, with cardboard and dinosaurs along the way.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A 14-minute fever dream that treats cardboard dinosaurs and romantic incoherence with the same deadpan intensity—refuses to let you know if you're supposed to laugh, cry, or just sit in the discomfort, which is exactly why it works.
Rivero's whimsy risks sentimentality, but the film's deliberate formal abstraction—its commitment to surrealist logic over emotional clarity—places it in conversation with structural experimentalism rather than indie romance convention.
The decision to render the entire emotional arc through tactile, childlike materials (cardboard, practical surrealism) instead of through performance or dialogue is what makes the incoherence of love feel genuinely tactile rather than merely stated.