Spain's 'peaceful' transition was a lie and this film has the receipts.
Punk spirit and archive footage: a visual discuss on the Spanish Transition, a supposedly exemplary stage with many flaws when is looked at closely. A thinking jumble in which the works of dissident filmmakers fit just as well as newsreels, teen criminal gangs movies, erotic screwball comedies, social dramas and television freakshows for children. A visual avalanche, an exquisite corpse that radiographs a beloved country named Spain between 1975 and 1982.
Editing
Jarring juxtapositions that weaponize archival footage.
Direction
Grau's anarchic curatorial eye refuses easy answers.
Director
Kikol Grau
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Grau constructed the film entirely from pre-existing footage, spending years scavenging Filmoteca archives and private collections.
The 'Transition' myth was Spain's founding secular religion—this film commits heresy by treating 1975-82 as continuous with Francoism rather than a clean break.
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