Las partes de mí que te aman son seres vacíos
1995 · 9m · España
Directed by Mercedes Gaspar
Genres: experimental, fantasy, surrealism
Two lovers eat what they love of each other, a mutual ingestion that takes them on an astral journey around Gea, the spirit of the Earth, in a surreal tale of cannibal desire.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A 1995 surrealist short that treats cannibalism as cosmological romance—Gaspar swings for the fences with a premise most scouts would politely skip, and lands in genuinely disorienting territory where desire and consumption become indistinguishable. The fact that it's orbiting an earth-spirit while two people eat each other's love is exactly the kind of "wait, WHAT?" that makes consensus filmmaking look cowardly.
Gaspar's mythopoeic vocabulary—the astral journey, the earth-spirit Gea, the ritualistic ingestion—situates this work within a lineage of surrealist cinema concerned with the body as site of transformation, though the execution here trades formal precision for hallucinatory texture in ways that feel more provocative than considered.
The singular choice here is treating mutual consumption not as horror or transgression but as a gateway—the moment the lovers ingest each other becomes the hinge that unlocks an entire cosmological plane, and Gaspar commits fully to that structural pivot in a way that elevates what could've been shock value into genuine metaphysical inquiry.