Juan Rulfo's participation on Antonio Reynoso's El Despojo (1960) is one of the results of Rulfo's interest in films. The argument and dialogue ideas were created by the author as the same time as the filming development in the natural areas of Jalisco. The film is considered the most accomplished transposition of author's literature to celluloid. This article deepens in the key creative and interpretative aspects of the short film: the Mexican experimental cinema inclusion of the seventies, the literary origin as filmic adaptation or transposition of an Ambrose Bierce's tale, and coincidences in theme, style, symbolism and myths with the narrative universe created in El llano en llamas (1952) and Pedro Paramo (1955) by Rulfo.