How to Become a Landlord?

Abigél brings a very handsome Piece of Land to life and seduces her way into becoming his landlord. Their relationship starts promising, but soon becomes one-sided: he doesn’t speak or act, while Abigél spends all her time watering and mowing him, hoping to hear “I love you.” To make use of her efforts, she starts renting him out to tenants. The business takes off, but as she focuses on money, she forgets to take care of him. Renters park, golf, and party on him, leaving him in poor condition. In a vision, the Piece of Land realizes he can take control of his own destiny using his muscular arms. Now alive, he takes revenge on Abigél, destroying everything she has built and getting her arrested by the police. He returns to his original place, cares for himself, grows legs, and dances freely. As Abigél passes by the meadow in a police car, looking at the free Piece of Land, she realizes she must find her own identity within herself.

Director’s statement
The early motivation behind How to Become a Landlord? comes from my anxiety about housing and stability. Owning a property feels increasingly unreachable yet remains a strong desire. The film grows from the idea of solving this by becoming a landlord within the film itself.
Through Abigél, I explore this wish in an exaggerated form. She turns care into ownership. What begins as intimacy becomes transactional, where emotion is replaced by profit and control, reflecting how relationships, property, and systems of power often mirror each other.
As the Piece of Land is exploited, he gains awareness and agency, rejects ownership, and reclaims himself. By the end, he becomes autonomous, while Abigél questions her identity outside control and possession.
By casting myself as Abigél, I use self-reflexive comedy to explore personal and social questions, asking whether happiness lies in control and ownership, or in letting them go.