What Probably Would Have Happened If I Hadn’t Stayed at Home

Willy Hans is already a Filmadrid regular: his trilogy of short films Das satanische Dickicht (2014- 2017), screened at the 2018 edition, showed a defiant filmmaker, capable of dissecting with power and acidity the chinks in an everyday environment that seems to be on the verge of collapse. His new work takes his commitment to discomfort, fractal narratives, and skirting humour to a higher level. A gathering of young friends and acquaintances begins to unfold in multiple layers of reality as an irrational tension and threat looms over the attendees, both among themselves and from the outside, where all indications are that an uprising is taking place. The director declares that his work is to be understood in "subjunctive mode" and that his camera acts as a "seismograph": it is a question, then, of approaching what cannot be seen, what might actually happen or might already be happening. Few recent films released in Spain can boast of summoning up and condensing, in such a short duration (barely twenty minutes), such a quantity of ideas and narrative challenges without, moreover, losing sight of a more than refreshingly revulsive and mocking tone. GABRIEL DOMÉNECH