YOU WILL FALL AGAIN
2015 · 6m · Spain
Directed by Alex Pachón
Genres: experimental, mystery
Tones: contemplative, surreal, tense
A wheelchair-bound sleeper, dropped keys and a cracking ceiling become the raw material for an unsettling dance tableaux.
Picked by Margot
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Most people would've turned this into inspiration-porn or disability metaphor soup, but Pachón refuses the easy read entirely—wheelchair, dropped keys, cracking plaster become pure compositional elements in a dance that doesn't *mean* anything, and that refusal is genuinely radical.
This sits squarely in the lineage of structuralist dance cinema and experimental tableau work, where the body becomes architectural; the formal restraint—six minutes of sustained, almost Brakhagian attention to movement and decay—positions it as a serious contribution to that conversation.
The decision to let the camera hold static while the body and environment do the language-work is what sells it; cheaper, smarter, and it forces you to read texture and pressure in ways a more mobile frame would undercut.