Midori
2006 · 8m · España
Directed by Koldo Almandoz
Genres: experimental, fantasy
Tones: contemplative, surreal
An entomologist participates in a congress in Kyoto and one midday decides to visit a temple instead of attending a talk; it is a normal spring day — until Midori appears before his video camera.
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A contemplative entomologist skips a talk to film a temple, and then—something arrives that shouldn't exist. Almandoz threads the needle between arthouse restraint and genuine formal weirdness, which is exactly the kind of subversion that works because it earns it.
The restraint here is exquisite: a narrative that invites us into phenomenological space before gently rupturing it, positioning Midori within a lineage of poetic cinema that questions what we witness through the camera. Almandoz's compositional clarity and temporal pacing elevate what could be gimmick into something architecturally coherent.
The decision to keep the camera rolling—passive, observational—while the impossible enters frame transforms the entire ethical and visual register of the piece; that choice alone is what separates a neat concept from something that actually *feels* uncanny and alive.