The art of telling and intertextuality in three short films by Paula Ortiz.

Abstract

This study, based on three short films by Aragonese film director Paula Ortiz, aims at exploring the intertextuality, as well as the various means of expression and modes of literary, artistic and scientific representation that characterize them. The confluence and assemblage of these films give birth to a new type of cinematographic writing marked by a dream-like aesthetic which reveals the depths, strengths and weaknesses of the human soul. Marked by myths, philosophy and psychoanalysis, the hybridization which is sought for and experimented by the filmmaker aims at achieving an ideal kind of storytelling. Reaching back to an age-old preoccupation, the driving force is to create universes where the imagination, a sense of evasion, the aesthetic and the message conveyed partake in enriching and transcending everyday life, for the great pleasure of the viewer.