El ‘estilo trascendental’ aplicado al cortometraje de drama juvenil Distancia

Abstract

This study is a qualitative research aimed at understanding the so-called resources of everyday, disparity, and stasis, as fundamental pillars of the 'transcendental style', proposed by the North American theorist Paul Schrader, in his analysis of Yasujirô Ozu’s films. Based on Schrader's theoretical proposal, by way of argument, Gilles Deleuze's theory on contemplative cinema is reviewed. This theoretical framework has been helpful at analyzing Latin American travel films, along with the application of the structural and generic method proposed by the script theorist Gerardo Fernández, in his book Dramaturgia Método para escribir o analizar un guión dramatizado ([2003] 2014, sic.); and, together with the scheme of the classic hero's journey, in the version of Francis Vanoye, who, in his book Guiones modelo y modelos de guión, ([1991] 1996, sic.) proposes a method to analyze films that are developed as open structures of the odyssey type. Finally, the dramatic proposal applied to the Distancia script is presented. Through theorization and practice, the goal of this work is to obtain the script for a youth travel drama, in addition to contributing to the theoretical reflection on script writing and to Ecuadorian cinematography.