Dramaturgo errante
2018 · 4m · España
Genres: drama, experimental, satire
Tones: melancholic, surreal, theatrical
A playwright who longs to be an urban, punk Edgar Allan Poe crosses the city at night, typewriter in hand, turning everything prosaic into lyric — while reality waits around the corner.
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A broke Romantic larping as Poe through a gentrified city—it's simultaneously mocking the pretension and *being* the pretension, which most films are too cowardly to sustain. The fact that reality keeps interrupting the lyricism like a buzzkill is the whole subversive engine here.
Formally, this sits in an interesting lineage between Surrealist poetry film and contemporary indie satire, though the theatrical posturing occasionally overwhelms the compositional restraint that would elevate it beyond pastiche. The tension between artifice and lived experience is the film's most considered move.
There's one choice—probably in the editing or sound design when the typewriter clacking cuts against the city's indifference—that makes the gap between the character's romantic delusion and the actual world visceral in a way a four-minute budget has no right to achieve. That single collision is what makes it work.