El ello
2021 · 3m · España
Directed by Claudio Monterroso
Genres: comedy, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, theatrical
Roberto and Daniela are on their first date; his ID will be forced to meet urgently, since according to Freud, the ID is present from birth with the purpose of obtaining immediate satisfactions of all desires and needs, being a guide, and without being affected by reality or logic.
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A three-minute Freudian psyche comedy where the ID literally crashes a first date—this is exactly the kind of premise that makes people say "wait, WHAT?" before they get it, and it nails the absurdist landing instead of explaining itself to death.
The film situates itself playfully within psychoanalytic discourse and early surrealist cinema traditions, though the execution feels more sketch-comedy than formally rigorous; the theatrical tone is clear, but the craft choices don't quite deepen the conceptual premise.
The one move that works is treating the ID as a literal third party crashing the scene—a single casting and blocking decision that transforms what could've been a tired concept into something genuinely strange and funny with almost no budget.