Hyde & Jekyll
2000 · 7m · España
Directed by Sara Mazkiaran
Genres: biography, drama, experimental
Tones: dark, melancholic, surreal
An autobiographical adaptation of Stevenson's tale shows the double personality, Jekyll and Hyde, good and evil, of a cursed poet who has lived confined in psychiatric hospitals since he was eighteen.
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Mazkiaran takes one of literature's most borrowed premises and refuses to resolve the Jekyll-Hyde binary—instead she lets psychiatric confinement become the real narrative, which is genuinely unsettling in ways that matter.
A formally rigorous reckoning with both Stevenson's text and the autobiographical mode itself; the surrealism isn't decoration but a considered formal choice that positions personal pathology within literary and institutional lineages.
What elevates this above concept is Mazkiaran's decision to let the psychiatric setting do the psychological work—the confinement *is* the doubling, and that singularity of vision turns a seven-minute span into something that feels architecturally complete.