The protagonist in Pesadilla is a man who has become lost in his dreams, constantly failing in his attempts to stay awake. A heroic victim whose narcoleptic days can only tip over into an absurd universe.
The character’s tremendous desire and constant lack of success provoke empathy and black humour, like a one-way mirror held up to a society on the edge of hysteria: a limbo suspended between insomnia, sleepwalking and narcolepsy. The protagonist encounters all kinds of contradictions brought on by modern life and suffers an overdose of violent images and accelerated passages of time that break our internal rhythms.He undergoes visual metamorphoses that depict the stress imposed on him by technological intrusions and the frenzy of city living.
At the intersection between burlesque and the bizarre, Pesadilla marries black humour and melancholy by relating the fragility of a man divided between dreaming with his eyes open and living with his eyes closed.
Pesadilla is a chair, a whip, a pair of men’s shoes, a shirt, a tie, a dog mask, an old screen from the 70s, an imaginary audience, a bus that never arrives, a gun, high heels, desire, flamenco, a panda...