M.A.M.O.N. Latinos vs. Donald Trump
2016 · 6m · Uruguay
Directed by Ale Damiani
Genres: dark comedy, satire, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
In a satirical science-fiction story, Latino characters face the consequences of a plan to expel immigrants from the United States and build a huge border wall. A monitoring system named M.A.M.O.N. is part of that scenario.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A sci-fi satire that weaponizes genre tropes to skewer border politics—absurdist enough to evade the sermon, provocative enough to land it anyway. M.A.M.O.N. itself is the kind of grotesque premise other scouts would call 'on the nose,' which is exactly why it works.
The film's debt to dystopian sci-fi traditions is evident, though its satirical stance occasionally overwhelms the formal precision that would elevate it beyond topical intervention; the monitoring-system conceit feels more thematically pointed than structurally inevitable.
The decision to literalize state apparatus as a named, autonomous system—giving it a voice, an acronym, a presence—is the structural choice that transforms what could have been agitprop into something with actual dramatic teeth; it's the kind of singular conceptual move that justifies the format.