Mi obra maestra
2021 · 15m · Argentina
Directed by Jonathan Rodríguez Serrato
Genres: dark comedy, drama, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
Jacobo and Tomas, two young documentarians, seek to make their masterpiece by interviewing the beloved president of the nation; their lack of experience and their egos will lead them to take extreme measures to culminate their work, even overstepping their morals and ethics.
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Two failed documentarians chasing a presidential interview becomes a portrait of ego and moral collapse—it's the anti-hero's journey nobody asked for, and the film knows exactly how to make you complicit in rooting for the wrong people.
Rodríguez Serrato constructs a formally precise descent into satire, each scene calibrated to expose the machinery of ambition; the interplay between mockumentary artifice and dramatic consequence situates itself smartly within a lineage of Latin American political cinema.
The film hinges on a single recurring choice—how the camera holds on the protagonists' faces in the moments right before they rationalize the unthinkable—and it's that micro-performance beat that transforms what could've been a sketch into something genuinely unsettling.