A filmmaker hunts his own ghosts through Super-8 memories—what he finds will wreck you softly.
The filmmaker Juan Pinzás goes on a physical and also inner journey, in search of some lost images that he filmed in the 80s. The journey takes him from Madrid to Galicia and on the search for these images he meets with various characters who will help him in his undertaking, such as the actors Paul Naschy and Javier Gurruchaga whose personal worlds will be examined in the film. Finally in Vigo, his home city, of which he presents a remarkable portrait, he finds an old film in Super-8mm with the missing images. The catharsis is produced with the viewing of the old film which turns out to be a tribute to cinema and this means the end of the filmmaker's introspective journey.
Direction
Pinzás turns navel-gazing into something genuinely universal.
Cinematography
The Super-8 footage hits like finding your own childhood home movies.
Writing
Naschy and Gurruchaga interviewed as living ghosts of Spanish cinema.
Director
Juan Pinzás
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Paul Naschy was Spain's werewolf king—his appearance here, two years before his death, frames the film as accidental elegy for exploitation cinema.
The 'lost images' being Super-8 rather than digital or even 16mm is deliberate—Pinzás is mourning not just his youth but the materiality of film itself.
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