When matters of mental health diffuse into love and relationships, interpersonal struggles can be attributed to unhealthy dynamics or fading attraction when the root of the issue may arise from within.

In short film, Sóc Jo – translated as It’s Me from Catalan – directors and brothers Mike and Camilo Gutier contemplate the introspective journey of a woman navigating her relationship through indifference associated with depression. Exploring the pervasiveness of anhedonia – a symptom that causes disinterest in things that once elicited pleasure – Sóc Jo follows the daily fluctuations of Lu and Franco’s life in Barcelona, as she is confronted by a reality in which questions regarding her feelings are initiated, not by his behaviour, but by her own mental state and a condition she has yet to identity.

As the couple’s relationship begins to decline, the film depicts the projected frustrations that force distance between them – and how perception and emotions can be distorted by psychological disorders. Capturing a relationship governed by forces outside of the bond at its center, Sóc Jo seeks to offer catharsis for dark moments born from depression, and the strain of differentiating between rational thinking and aversions that defy our own reasoning.