The Blind Gaze. On a Short Film by Los Hijos

Abstract

This article analyses the second short film from the collective of filmmakers Los Hijos, Ya viene, aguanta, riégueme, mátame, amongst other pieces of their work. This film constitutes a radical example of referential cinema, rebuilding today four famous Spanish films’ mise-en-scène, using no actors, with very limited financial resources, direct sound and the original dialogues inserted as subtitles into the image. Their approach to the relationships between documentary and fiction, as well as space and mise-en-scène, is here analised, along with the problematic of authorship and the role of the text, which is essential on this short film’s formal strategy and also in other artworks of Los Hijos. I conclude with some considerations about creation and novelty as rebel concepts to fidelity.