Ovnipresente
2017 · 4m · España
Directed by Esti Urresola
Genres: mystery, sci-fi, thriller
Tones: contemplative, surreal, tense
Juan and Ruben spend a night in the Garaio natural park, a place known for UFO sightings. At dawn, the pair finds something out of place.
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A UFO sighting setup that could've been genre-paint-by-numbers instead becomes something genuinely unsettling through sheer restraint—the film knows what NOT to show is scarier than any reveal, and that's the kind of subversive instinct most shorts botch.
Urresola positions herself deliberately within the sci-fi tradition while respecting the contemplative distance of slow cinema; the editing breath between discovery and reaction feels ancestral to Tarkovsky's formal patience with the uncanny.
The entire film hinges on one sustained final shot—no music, no explanation, just two figures encountering something incomprehensible—and that refusal to cut away, to let us sit in their confusion without comfort, is what transforms a premise into an experience.