Summary:

This paper is an extract from the author’s Final Thesis of the UNTDF Audiovisual Media Degree, in which the results of an academic investigation on the specificities of the cinematographic format called "short film" were presented, studying those aspects that make the itself be an autonomous audiovisual product with respect to the feature film. The work also included a Critical Report on the process of creation, production and production of an audiovisual work by the author, a short fiction called The Other Key, which is commented and shared here.

Key words: cinema | short films 1 poetics | ethics | aesthetics | desire