The wolf of strawberry and the forest of chocolate. Senel Paz and his cinematographic variations

Abstract

From his very first tale “Ne lui dis pas que je l’aime” to his latest work “Dans le ciel avec des diamands”, Senel Paz has never stopped going round a world peopled with characters who, from a tale to a film and from a film to a novel are forever in the making. David, Miguel, Diego etc. keep on resurfacing, in “Une fiancée pour David” as well as in the tale “le loup ......” which is the origin of Fraise et Chocolat. These “figuras en ‘constant’ evolucion” fit both written and filmed narratives. The frontiers between tale and film disintegrate and give way to a space where mixed types of characters can evolve: sometimes disembodied ink figures on paper, other times ghostlike silhouettes typical of the cinematographic screen. These progressively and constantly overlapping desires are forever keeping the boundaries between these different unfinished territories permeable and open.