Aferrado

Mexico2024animated18'Short Film Competition

Joel cruises around town on a motorbike like a character from the 1980s action film. All he wanted to do was to fix cars, but additionally, he cleans up the mess left by his bosses. When he needs to leave the family party to take care of the dirty work once again, he begins to be torn by his inner dilemmas. The animation, pulsating with disco rhythms and set in a dystopian, glitchy reality, shows a disintegrating man in a violent world. Video-game aesthetics and the first-person perspective enable us to identify with the protagonist and become drawn into this dangerous game.