Emotions
2017 · 3m · España
Directed by Cristian Prieto, Elsa Pataky
Genres: experimental
Tones: contemplative, sensual
A woman rides a horse across a meadow, runs through a forest, and walks along a rocky beach and a clifftop. She presents different outfits across landscapes in Australia and Asturias.
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The scouts
It's essentially a fashion editorial pretending to be cinema—pretty landscapes, pretty clothes, zero resistance or edge. The sensuality is so polished it flatlines into Instagram; there's nothing here that makes you uncomfortable or rewires how you see the form.
A rigorous visual meditation on the female body as landscape, composed with the precision of a Romantic painting—the directors treat costume and geography as equal formal elements, building a considered argument about presence and framing that recalls both experimental cinema and high-fashion portraiture.
The edit pace is the whole film; by holding on each outfit-and-terrain pairing just long enough to feel contemplative rather than static, they make costume change feel like emotional weather, which on a micro-budget is a directing choice that actually earns the sensuality.