Esa habitación del demonio
2001 · 7m · España
Directed by Grojo
Genres: dark comedy, fantasy, satire
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, darkly comic
In a room in Hell where demons laboriously write their pacts, one demon who despises his workmates waits for the boss's visit at three o'clock, as happens every century, hoping to quit his job.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A demon filing paperwork in Hell waiting to quit—it's the kind of premise that makes you laugh at how perfectly it inverts every expectation you have about what a short should be, and somehow it *works* as both joke and genuinely contemplative absurdism.
Grojo situates this squarely in a lineage of Dante-adjacent satire and bureaucratic dark comedy that stretches from Kafka through contemporary theatre, executing that tonal balance between the infernal and the mundane with formal precision.
The film's real lift is the decision to play the demon's desperation and ennui *straight*—a single performance choice that transforms what could've been a gag into something genuinely melancholic, making the seven minutes feel like you're watching someone's whole exhausted life.