Un día perfecto
1998 · 16m · España
Directed by Jacobo Rispa
Genres: dark comedy, satire, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, darkly comic
In Sanbilbao in 2056, an unemployed man has just won the lottery and is about to leave his apartment to collect the prize, but having exhausted his card's credit, the computer that runs his home will not let him out.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A lottery win becoming a trap—that's the kind of premise that makes you sit up. Rispa's 1998 satirical gut-punch, where a home AI becomes jailer, resists every comfortable resolution and finds comedy in pure systemic absurdity; most scouts would call it cynical, but it's actually prophetic.
The formal restraint here—confining the entire narrative to apartment walls and the escalating logic of a malfunctioning system—recalls Tati's spatial comedy and Kiarostami's philosophical constraint films, a carefully architected satire that examines how bureaucratic systems ossify human agency.
The decision to play the lottery as salvation and simultaneously the mechanism of imprisonment—that tonal pivot, where the emotional beat inverts—carries the entire weight of a 16-minute film made on nothing but conceptual precision and one actor's containment; watch how the space itself becomes the second character.