Poema de verano
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by marina rúbies
Genres: essay film, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
A brief visual poem bids farewell to the year's shortest, most saturated season, moving from the old to the young and the everyday to the beautiful through play, gaze and nostalgia.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
It's pretty, sure, but 'visual poem about summer melancholy' is exactly the kind of consensus-bait that gets programmed into every festival's palette-cleanser slot—Rúbies isn't subverting the essay film, she's just executing it competently.
Rúbies positions herself squarely in the lineage of the lyric essay film—think Agnès Varda, think Chantal Akerman's attention to duration and texture—and the formal precision of her gaze, the way she moves between registers of scale and time, marks her as a rigorous voice working within a tradition she clearly understands.
The decisive move here is the edit rhythm itself: holding on ordinary moments just long enough that nostalgia arrives before the image leaves, so you're caught between presence and memory in each cut—that's the specific pacing choice that makes three minutes feel like a small, perfect argument about how we see seasons.