| Summary: | The thesis is an imaginary film which adopts the structure of Carlos Saura?s movie Elisa, vida mía (Elisa, my life, Spain 1976). Main ?characters? are the editor Pablo G. del Amo, the directors Carlos Saura and Víctor Erice and the producer Elías Querejeta, all of whom have left a profound trace on the history of Spanish cinema in the second half of the 20th century. However, my film is confined to the period between 1965 and 1976, marking the beginning of their collaboration. They aimed to shoot authorial movies, to reach certain continuity of the work and to comment as much as possible on the political situation ? this was the period when General Franco?s regime was almost over. Another aim of Querejeta?s production was to draw out discerning viewers, i.e. to prove that such an audience already existed.
Elisa, my life, Saura?s most personal film, closes one period of work of all the ?characters?, and marks a certain turning point. Elisa leads my film through its work with space-time and motives to tell about the chosen period and films from certain points of view. Structuring my thesis on a film enables me to work with different kinds of materials: historical facts, contemporary press, film analyses and autobiographical information. This creates different mutually intertwining lines. The story of Pablo G. del Amo?s life is so essential for his decision to dedicate his entire life to cinema, that several sequences have been devoted to him. My film should provide the same reminiscent approach characteristic of the researched material. The theme of memory gives impulses to the characters to move in space and time, to their childhood, imagination and dreams. Memory ? personal as well as of the whole society ? is understood not only by means of remembering, but also of intentional forgetting.
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