A portrait of the Spanish director Lorenzo Llobet Gràcia (1911-76), one of the outsiders of Spanish cinema, and the story of his masterpiece, a cult work that tells the story of a self-taught filmmaker who was born under the sign of the shadows, lights and chiaroscuro of cinema.
Direction
Alberich crafts mystery from fragments, turning archive into séance.
Writing
Narration treats Llobet Gràcia like a ghost the director can't exorcise.
Production
Rescues a career from total erasure—preservation as desperate romance.
Director
Ferrán Alberich
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Llobet Gràcia operated during Franco's Spain, when experimental cinema faced censorship and economic starvation—his obscurity was partly systemic erasure.
The title references both his birth under 'shadows' and his chiaroscuro visual style, but also the shadow cast by his single surviving film, which Alberich treats almost as holy relic.
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