La guia
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Carlos Jávega Granero
Genres: comedy, satire, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, darkly comic
A man consults his virtual assistant for guidance, without imagining how disconnected it can be from reality.
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Three minutes of a man drowning in algorithmic guidance that gets progressively more useless—the joke isn't that AI is bad, it's that we're stupid enough to keep asking. A delicious inversion of the techno-utopia pitch that everyone else is too scared to actually commit to.
Granero's economy of form—the constraint of a single location, the escalating tonal shifts—channels a lineage from Tati through contemporary digital-age satire, with editing that knows exactly when to hold and when to cut away from the absurdity.
The specific choice to let the assistant's responses become increasingly surreal without comment, trusting the audience to track the disconnect themselves, does all the heavy lifting; minimal budget, maximum conceptual precision.