La huida
2011 · 11m · España
Directed by Victor Carrey
Genres: experimental, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, whimsical
A piece of chewing gum on the ground, a dog lead, an Australia-shaped wall stain and a crooked traffic light each carry their own story, and joined together they generate a new plot.
Picked by Felix
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Most shorts build narrative from character or conflict—Carrey tosses that entirely and lets a gum wrapper, a leash, a water stain, and a broken traffic light become the plot's architects, which is either genuinely visionary or total nonsense, and I'm betting it's both.
The formal restraint here—using found objects as narrative nodes rather than metaphors—recalls structural cinema and object-based poetics, though the whimsy occasionally threatens to undercut the rigor that makes the premise work.
The entire film hinges on Carrey's decision to treat mundane debris as equal narrative weights and let their juxtaposition generate meaning; that single choice—refusing hierarchy among the overlooked—transforms eleven minutes into something that feels like it cost nothing and means everything.