RETAP
2023 · 10m · España
Directed by Víctor Marín
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
What happens when a mind breaks? What destiny awaits it? Could it transcend the laws of men? A journey into the depths of a tormented mind, seeking to discover the true motives that drive its protagonist.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Marín doesn't just visualize psychological fracture—he makes the formal language *become* the fracture, resisting any coherent narrative spine other scouts would demand. This is the kind of willfully unsettling experimental work that feels like a threat to consensus taste, which means it's probably essential.
There's clear lineage here to structural cinema and psychological portraiture, though the execution feels caught between essay and fever dream; the editing strategy is deliberate, but it risks sacrificing the formal clarity that would elevate this into genuine rigor.
The sound design choice—how silence and distortion map the protagonist's deterioration rather than dialogue or plot mechanics—is what transforms this from abstract concept into something visceral and earned.