Aquarium(1975)

Aquarium is a 1975 Super-8 short film by Zulueta that marks his first venture into psychodrama, exploring a disturbed state of consciousness through fragmented, lyrical imagery. The film establishes visual and thematic ideas that would resurface in Zulueta's later 1980 feature Arrebato, particularly in sequences evoking experimental filmmaking. Shot on Super-8, Aquarium captures the disorienting, dreamlike quality of psychological disturbance, using abstraction and poetic sequences to convey inner turmoil. The work demonstrates Zulueta's emerging style—blending narrative disruption with visual experimentation to represent mental states that resist conventional storytelling. For viewers interested in experimental cinema and psychological portraiture, Aquarium reveals the filmmaker's early exploration of form as a means to externalize internal experience.