Mariana Di Girolamo

A shocking incident that upends her family and marriage to a tempestuous choreographer sets a reggaeton dancer on an odyssey of personal liberation.

Beetling video-game visuals compete with reality in Valeria Hofmann’s inventive, aesthetically eclectic short, which confers a first-person-shooter perspective on a home invader to chilling effect. Splashy neon color pools like hazardous waste in this pixelated distillation of a toxic gaming scene.