Mobilities, border aesthetics and prospective archaeology in Miguel Llansó’s cosmopolitan science fiction: "Crumbs" and "Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway" as anarchives

This article delves into the work of the Spanish filmmaker Miguel Llansó and examines it as an example of transnational and cosmopolitan science fiction. Llansó’s feature films, analyzed from a perspective that foregrounds the mobilities present in their discourses, reveal that their fusion of Afrofuturism, pop culture, ironic surrealism and political satire turns them into proposals of a unique border aesthetics and, at the same time, anarchivistic devices that document the complexity of contemporary popular culture and the world that produces and hosts it. The perspective of transnational film studies and an approach inspired by media archaeology provide us with tools to analyze films that, in their radical eclecticism of themes, narrative, expressive forms and visual style, emerge as the cinematic materialization of a proposal for prospective archaeology that, rooted in popular culture and within the genre framework of science fiction, challenges historical conventions and proposes a constructive and tactical intervention in the relationships between past, present and future.