Sesos
2025 · 3m · Argentina
Directed by Mirtha Bermegui
Genres: experimental, sci-fi, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
In an arid, broken landscape, brains fall from the sky and wander among technological ruins until one fuses with the scrap and a female humanoid body emerges to guide and devour them toward a pit.
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Finally—a film that treats the grotesque not as metaphor but as pure narrative logic, where brains literally fall from the sky and nobody's asking why because the *what* is too insane to question. Bermegui doesn't apologize for the premise; she builds an entire universe around its wrongness, and it's exactly the kind of unwatchable-then-essential that the consensus crowd will call 'difficult' and miss entirely.
The visual grammar here—technological ruin paired with organic decay, the pit as endpoint—echoes the memento mori tradition filtered through post-industrial abstraction, though the execution relies more on shock value than the sustained formal intelligence that would elevate it into genuine rigor.
That moment when the humanoid body coalesces from the scrap—the decision to keep it faceless, to let the audience assemble its form rather than see it rendered—is the entire film, and Bermegui knows it; three minutes of atmosphere and then that one edit that makes you understand everything she built toward it.