MEMINÍ
2019 · 9m · Chile
Directed by Danilo Camus
Genres: drama, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
After a bus-stop accident leaves her in a coma for over a month, a young woman's mind loops through memories and surreal images, rejecting even her loved ones, until their love and patience call her back.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The coma-as-metaphor angle is well-trodden territory, but Camus refuses to make it redemptive or neat—the surrealism doesn't resolve into meaning, it just *is*, which is genuinely uncomfortable and rare.
A formally precise meditation on consciousness and memory that situates itself squarely in the lineage of experimental dream-logic cinema, with compositional restraint that recalls both Tarkovsky's intervals and contemporary European minimalism.
The decision to let the loved ones remain partly out of focus—present but never centered—while the fractured memories dominate the frame is what makes this work; it's a single spatial choice that reframes the entire emotional architecture.