“In a world that revolves around the culture of success, failure is what people don’t want to talk about. It’s not easily shown or discussed, yet it’s as connected to desire, ambition, and success as the shadow that follows you as you walk”, says Director Raquel San Nicolás
Fracaso is a stylised documentary film that explores the concept of failure, specially created for the visual arts festival Veintinueve Trece in Lanzarote, an island in the Spanish archipelago of the Canary Islands. The film is directed by Raquel San Nicolás and produced by Hiersoir.
Fracaso explores the concept of failure via the lives of 12 people. Through a phone call, the characters describe and delimit this concept, giving it an image and reflecting on its omnipresence and the inexorable duality with its opposite, success. The film turns into a universal monologue out of twelve different calls, where voices and languages are merged to build up a collective conception of what failure really means. The images in this visual piece where shot in 35mm in Lanzarote.