Nessun Dorma
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Carlos Martos
Genres: comedy, experimental
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
Art and living together prove hard to combine when one of them is understood in an extremely peculiar way, in a comedy where reality and fiction collide.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A three-minute absurdist collision where the premise itself is the joke—reality and fiction don't just blend, they actively refuse to make sense together, and the film knows exactly how funny that refusal is. This is the kind of genre-bender that makes you wonder what the hell you just watched, which means it's working.
Martos demonstrates formal control in how the surreal logic builds within strict temporal constraints, though the experimental comedy's relationship to its own tradition remains deliberately opaque—a choice that either elevates it or undercuts it, depending on one's tolerance for calculated obscurity.
The decisive move here is committing fully to the peculiarity of the premise without explanation or apology; that single tonal decision—treating the absurd as mundane—transforms what could've been clever into something genuinely disorienting on a shoestring.