Synopsis
Through the portrayal of snuff movies(hard core pornography in which the characters are actually killed on the scene) the 24 year ad Spanish director Alejandro Amena ber explores the relationship between sex, violence and the mass media. Angela ask her advisor to find a nonofficial tape from the university archive to use as material in her dissertation, ‘the representation of violence in film’, The tape turns out to be a snuff film of a female student who disappeared a couple of years age. A secret snuff movie operation involving the film department is uncovered and Angela’s friend Chema and Chema’s ex-boyfriend Bosco are targeted as prime suspects. Angela too is in danger of falling victim to the snuff moive operation…
TESIS combines elements of espionage films with horror without the excessive use of voyeurism and representation by discussing issue of anonymity in the media and the power of image.