Nine minutes to shatter your ego bubble — or reinforce it. Your call, narcissist.
The wanderer Rascal embarks on a psychotic and contradictory journey to break out of the ego bubble in which his self-loathing and isolation have inserted him in. After his metamorphosis, his soulmate, Paloma, makes him realize that life is as complicated as it is simple - and that all that's left to do is to live.
Direction
Sá Machado directs himself dissociating — meta or narcissistic? Both
Editing
Rizomatic cuts that mirror OCD thought spirals
Sound
Braga's voice haunts like your own internal monologue
Director
Fernando Sá Machado
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Braga's emerging 'film poem' movement — Portuguese cinema's answer to 'I studied abroad and now I can't stop explaining'
The title's wordplay ('oxymoron oxidation') suggests decay through contradiction — rusting from holding incompatible truths simultaneously
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