Slides
2011 · 17m · España
Directed by César Urrutia, David Ilundain, Eugenia Poseck, Javier San Román, Jesús Liedo, Luis Arribas, Paul Severn
Genres: drama, essay film, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal, tender
Eight situations in different parts of the world, from a teenager reciting a poem to a woman feeding someone, form a puzzle portraying today's globalised society as a single whole.
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The scouts
Seven directors collaborating on a global puzzle-box sounds like chaos, but the surreal restraint here—resisting the urge to make any of it *mean* too explicitly—is genuinely weird in a way that'll annoy people who want their globalism digestible.
Slides positions itself squarely in the essay-film tradition, where montage becomes argument; the decision to let eight dispersed moments cohere without didacticism shows formal discipline that'll reward careful viewing and repeated programming.
The masterstroke is the tenderness layered beneath the conceptual apparatus—that moment of feeding, the teenager's recitation—choices that ground abstraction in tactile human specificity and prevent the whole thing from floating into pure formalism.