Melancolía, fantasma y tiempo subjetivo en el cortometraje ¿Y Amelia?

Abstract

This research proposes to study melancholy, subjective time and the figure of the ghost in the cinema, techniques and narratives that will be applied in the short film ¿Y Amelia? to represent the guilt conflicts of the character Fernando. For what we will base ourselves on the concepts of: melancholy explained by Sigmund Freud (1917) and Julia Kristeva (1991), the ghost studied by Álvaro Lema (2016; 2019) and subjective time through Gilles Deleuze (1987) and David Bordwell (1996). The methodology used will be qualitative and specifically research/creation (Hernández Hernández, 2006; 2015; Carreño, 2014). The filmic analysis of the following films will be made: in La mujer sin cabeza (2008), by Lucrecia Martel we will check melancholy, in Jojo Rabbit (2019), by Taika Waititi, we’ll see about the ghost and in Entre Marx y una Mujer Desnuda (1996) by Camilo Luzuriaga, we will emphasize subjective time. The methodology for film analysis that we will follow will be: form Anne Goliot-Lété and Francis Vanoye in the book Précis d’ analyse filmique (2008) and from Laurent Jullier and his book Analyser un film (2012). The aforementioned short film proposes to join these three elements in order to enrich the story told. With this research and the short film, it is expected to make a significant contribution to the theory and practice of Ecuadorian cinema around these three concepts and their practical application.