Zero. Un cortometraje producido por Ridley Scott y Michael Fassbender
2015 · 29m · España
Directed by David Victori
Genres: drama, fantasy, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
A father and son are emotionally and physically separated on the day the Earth intermittently loses gravity. The boy wanders, obsessed with his mother's recent death, while his father tries to find him.
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Scott and Fassbender's names promise spectacle, but Victori uses gravity loss as *metaphor* for grief instead of setpiece—which should be boring, except it's weirdly not, because the film trusts the absence of explanation to do the heavy lifting.
A formally precise elegy that situates itself squarely in the lineage of Tarkovsky and Glazer—the restraint in how it frames separation, the refusal to literalize the fantastical premise into plot mechanics, marks it as a work aware of its own classical ambitions.
The decision to ground the father-son search amid a world shedding gravity *without showing the spectacle of it*—just a boy floating through domestic space, a father's helplessness—turns budget constraint into thematic inevitability, and that's where the film actually lives.