SILEO ORBIS (Reinicio del Planeta)
2020 · 1m · España
Directed by Pepe Rodríguez
Genres: drama, experimental, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, dark, provocative
The human being is not prepared for an enemy as powerful as a devastating climate change, but to subsist as a species, it is capable of experimenting with the human being itself.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A 60-second provocation that doesn't flinch from its own ugliness—the premise alone (we must experiment on ourselves to survive climate collapse) is the kind of heretical sci-fi turn that makes consensus scouts squirm, and Rodríguez leans into it rather than softening the edges.
Formally austere and situated in a lineage of speculative cinema concerned with bodily transformation and ecological crisis, though the compression into one minute risks sacrificing the tonal precision and measured development that would elevate this beyond conceptual provocation.
The economy here is ruthless—whatever visual or sonic choice anchors the human experimentation (the specific body alteration, the sound design of transformation) would need to be devastating in isolation, because there's simply no time for anything else to carry the weight.