Pulsos
2009 · 14m · España
Directed by Adán Llorca
Genres: experimental, satire
Tones: absurdist, theatrical
A man proposes to others something they are not accustomed to doing. Finding it interesting, they decide to try it.
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A man recruits strangers into an unnamed, unexplained act and they just... go with it—no punchline, no moral, just the absurd mechanics of social contagion played completely straight. It's the kind of premise that makes you squint at the screen wondering what the hell you're actually watching, which is exactly where experimental satire should live.
Llorca's theatrical staging and measured pacing situate *Pulsos* within a lineage of Beckettian absurdism and European performance art cinema, where restraint and repetition become the formal language of meaning-making. The film's refusal to explain itself is a deliberate compositional choice, one that rewards viewers attuned to what's *not* said.
The singular choice here is committing entirely to the proposal's opacity—never revealing what the act is, only the social momentum of participation—and that refusal to clarify transforms a 14-minute sketch into something genuinely unsettling and strange on almost no resources.