Yo soy Aquella
2016 · 4m · España
Directed by Iván Mulero
Genres: action, comedy, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
A young woman begins hearing strange noises in her head and is pulled into a world devastated by aliens. Or she may instead be discovering a legendary singer.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A four-minute sci-fi comedy that won't commit to its own premise — aliens *or* mystical singer discovery — is exactly the kind of gleeful refusal that makes consensus critics squirm, and Mulero leans into the absurdist vertigo like he knows something we don't.
The film's tonal ambiguity and narrative indeterminacy feel more anarchic than formally considered; it resists the kind of compositional restraint and thematic clarity that marks work aware of its lineage in experimental short cinema.
There's a single structural choice here — that moment the film stops pretending to resolve which reality is 'real' and just commits to the sensory confusion — that transforms what could've been a gimmick into something genuinely disorienting on a micro-budget.