Lobito Bueno, Bruja Hermosa
2015 · 5m · España
Directed by Ainara Porrón Arratibel
Genres: experimental, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, whimsical
Poetry, music, painting, photography and cinematography intermingle in this paradoxical tale of love stories that can be both possible and impossible at the same time, guided by an innocent poem sung as a lullaby through the complex and contradictory nature of emotional reality, where little wolves can be good and witches beautiful, or quite the opposite.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The premise reads like a greeting card, but Porrón Arratibel's refusal to pick a lane—is this a poem? a visual essay? a fever dream?—actually works; she's made something that *feels* like it shouldn't cohere, and that alone makes it worth the five minutes.
A formally rigorous collage that knows exactly what it's doing within the lyric-essay tradition, where sound design and image operate as equal partners rather than servant-and-master; the constraint of the lullaby as structural spine shows real curatorial thinking.
The decision to let the poem breathe as the primary narrator rather than underscoring it creates this specific gravity—every cut, every fade, every painterly moment lands because it's in service to language first, which is a harder choice than it sounds on a five-minute budget.