Sangre ciega
1994 · 13m · España
Directed by Geli Albaladejo, Miguel Albaladejo
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal
A young man walks through the city carrying a mirror and crosses paths with a blind woman, causing her a small cut. The blind woman continues on her way with the bleeding scratch and crosses paths with a third character, who will be harmed by this chain of events; we can never know the consequences of our acts.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A bloodline-as-moral-domino premise that's almost too tidy for its own good—but the Albaledjos refuse to resolve it, which is the only interesting move they could've made; most shorts would've cut to faces, they just let the cut bleed forward into abstraction.
A formally austere meditation on causality and culpability, structured as three linked movements that deliberately withhold narrative closure; the restraint here—the refusal to explain or psychologize—positions it squarely in a lineage of European experimental cinema concerned with the ethics of representation itself.
The decision to keep the camera dispassionate and the geography of the city geometrically consistent across the three encounters is what sells the metaphor; a less disciplined filmmaker would've swallowed the premise whole, but this one knows the power lives in the formal constraint.