Let’s go to Antarctica!
2019 · 6m · España
Directed by Gonzaga Manso
Genres: comedy, experimental
Carlos is a human being, currently on holiday in Antarctica; the penguins, who have no cameras, will find it very hard to remember him.
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A premise that inverts every travel-video cliché by making the tourist invisible to his subjects and thus, ontologically, to memory itself—comedy that lands because it's genuinely weird and philosophically unhinged, not because it's trying to be clever.
Manso works in a lineage of conceptual comedy that traces back through experimental European shorts, using formal constraint (the penguin perspective, the camera absence) as the spine of a tightly considered narrative gesture.
The whole film turns on a single sound design choice—the absence of penguin acknowledgment, the silence where recognition should be—that transforms a six-minute joke into something quietly existential about presence and erasure.