Group therapy: Part 1 (2017)

The short film is an allegory in the form of group therapy, which symbolizes the hostility that is offered to a person, who by some condition, is different from the rest. Thus, the other participants in the therapy, see it as an animal (guinea pig) and not as a human being. Each participant symbolizes a typology or stratum of society, which by action or omission, participates in the denial and destruction of the distinct individual. The Psychologist represents the supposed Western society or more evolved, assuming the role of leader and judge. The Vaquero represents the defender of the freedom of being different, influenced by the Western society to which belongs the Psychologist, disguised as archetype of it. The Python represents the most visceral, primitive and violent part, attacking that which differs from its way of understanding life. The Pillow is a character halfway to the rest, it is the evil that hides and does not show a similar or worse position to that of the Python, trying to appear in its hypocrisy as a more evolved and close to the Psychologist. The Cobaya symbolizes that different person, who seeks to be free as an individual, without harming anyone, and who is harassed and punished for it. No one in the room (even the public) is able to see it as a human being, but as an inferior animal. Finally, the environment and the violence that, by action and omission, is subdued, succeed in destroying it.