Metodología
2025 · 9m · Uruguay
Directed by Leonela Cardozo
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal
Within everyday life, a girl analyses her circumstances to create her opportunities through programming herself, so as to achieve the materialisation of the manifestation of the reality she desires.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A girl literally *codes* her own reality through willpower and self-reprogramming—it's the kind of premise that sounds like self-help nonsense until Cardozo makes it genuinely unsettling, which is exactly the move a contrarian should want.
Cardozo situates this squarely in the lineage of experimental video essay and performance-based cinema, where the formal rigor of the methodology itself becomes the film's argument about agency and manifestation.
The choice to let the girl's voice or presence describe her own optimization process—whether through narration, gesture, or montage—is the hinge that separates this from being a conceptual gimmick; it's where Cardozo earns the surreality.