In ‘CANCIÓN DE AMOR’, Spanish singer-songwriter Claudia Allmang signs her first real song about requited love, and she does so with a language as far as possible from the polished look of contemporary pop. To shoot the video, she uses a 1970 Super 8 film, shot entirely in Barcelona with her partner, Marla.

Directed, filmed and edited by Michal Wic, the video transforms analogue into a relationship metaphor. ‘Real love is like analogue film: it starts with chemistry and develops when you trust the process,’ reads the team’s statement. Everything revolves around the idea of love as a process in which chemistry is the beginning, development is shared time, and focus is attention to the other.

Shot with a crew of three and on Kodak VISION3 50D film, CANCIÓN DE AMOR recovers the image as an emotional language via grain, imperfections and flickering. Claudia and Marla look at each other through the lens as the focus shifts slightly. The blurred face becomes a symbol of vulnerability, of the trust needed to let oneself be seen.

Visually, Wic uses Super 8 not for nostalgia but as a dissension against modern, super-accelerated and hyper-saturated video clips. With film, every second requires trust in development time and imperfection.

Images of the sea, the city and domestic interiors construct an intimate map of Barcelona. In one sequence, the two protagonists laugh against the light between sheets stirred by the wind. The simple everyday nature of a real bond, which resists the need to be spectacularised.

CANCIÓN DE AMOR thus presents itself as a declaration of method. One should film how one loves, with patience and trust in the process.