

17 minutes of class warfare where the workers become the beast they serve.
Guided by their animal instinct, a clan of strange laborers seeks to take over the identity and position of privilege of their foreman without considering how the fiction is surpassed by reality.
Direction
Sáenz compresses feature-length dread into 17 tight minutes.
Cinematography
Animalistic movement through confined spaces—predatory framing.
Director
Mauricio Sáenz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sáenz emerged from Mexico's experimental scene, where short-form political horror interrogates labor conditions through surrealist body transformation.
The title references William Blake's poem—'burning bright in the forests of the night'—but here the tiger is manufactured, not divine.