LA CÁPSULA DEL TIEMPO
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by MARTA MÁÑEZ MORENO
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age, documentary
Tones: absurdist, humorous, provocative
Today's kids are fed up with hearing how much fun their parents and other adults had as children in the 80s and 90s; to prove their own childhood is not worthless, they set out to demonstrate it — not a scientific study, but almost.
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Kids weaponizing nostalgia against adults by reversing the entire generational complaint — it's a premise that shouldn't work but *does*, and Moreno's willingness to let the absurdity breathe makes it genuinely subversive without winking at the camera.
A cleanly constructed three-minute argument disguised as comedy, situtating itself in a lineage of observational shorts that deconstruct generational mythology with formal precision and restraint.
The decision to frame this as pseudo-scientific methodology rather than pure rant gives the kids' desperation an architectural backbone that elevates what could've been a one-note joke into something with actual texture.