The Generator Matrix, the Expanded Embryo, and the Multiple Dramaturgical Threads in Pedro Almodóvar

Abstract

This article investigates the creative processes and procedures of the spanish filmaker Pedro Almodóvar reflecting on the dramaturgical pathways created by him in the process of building his poetical project, observing the procedures that involve his thinking and his practice as a screenwriter and diretor so as to reflect about creative processes, authorship and communication. The hypothesis is that his poetical project is built through the selection and transformation of thematic and aesthetic elements present in his own work and in the work of other authors whose works affected his sensitivity, causing themes and characters to be repeated under diferent perspectives over time, creating a universe featured by a constant reinvention of texts and films in order to create his own filmic systems. This study was made by using interviews with the director and analysis of some of his films which maintain a dramaturgical relation working as generating matrices triggering new creative processes.  The analysis is based on theories from Cecilia Almeida Salles about the creation process.