A 10-minute fever dream where eye contact becomes the ultimate heist.
Hugo is trying to remember what important thing he had going on that day, but his mind is busy with music and daydreams about looking at someone's eyes.
Direction
Brito crams a feature's worth of visual gags into ten minutes.
Sound
Music as intrusive thought — the score won't let Hugo focus.
Acting
Faceto's physical comedy makes eye contact feel like cliff-diving.
Director
Lourenço Brito
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Portuguese short cinema has been quietly producing surrealist rom-coms; this is peak 'absurdist gaze theory'.
JP Faceto and Júlia Castanheiro reportedly developed the eye-contact choreography through actual staring contests.
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