Rodar en verano
2025 · 3m
Directed by David Pérez de Quevedo Casanova
Genres: experimental
Tones: contemplative, whimsical
Built from Notodofilmfest's phrase 'shooting in summer has something special', the film plays on every meaning of the Spanish verb 'rodar' — to shoot, to roll, to wander.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A three-minute meditation on the polysemy of 'rodar' feels like the kind of thing that lands either as precious or genuinely clever—and Pérez De Quevedo Casanova commits hard enough that I'm not sure it matters which. The whimsy could've been insufferable; instead it's bracing.
This is the kind of formal play—one word, infinite registers, summer light as throughline—that reveals itself as deeply traditional even as it appears experimental; the lineage traces back to Buñuel's word games and structural cinema, but the restraint and precision make it feel entirely contemporary.
What lifts this from a festival prompt into something memorable is the decision to treat 'rodar' not as clever wordplay but as a material fact—the camera actually rolling, bodies actually moving through summer space—and letting that friction between linguistic and physical meaning do the work instead of explanation.