“Fracaso” is a visual exploration of the concept of failure by twelve people with different life and career paths. Through a phone call, they describe and delimit this concept, giving it an image and reflecting on its omnipresence and the inexorable duality with its opposite, success. The audio of this video - in french and spanish -, is the result of a one-to-one conversation with the director. 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. Starring chinese model and influencer Sabrina Lan, spanish actor and model Nacho Dura and  local people from Lanzarote, that participate to the film giving it a glance of realness with everyday situations from their villages. Music plays a crucial part in this film. “Who is still dreaming” by June 11 envelopes the film in an oniric loop with repetitive core questions (“Who is still dreaming?, “Who sees the light”), enhancing the search for hope in the subtext of this story. The song “Tonadas de Ordeño” by Soledad Bravo comes at the end with the simplicity of a delicate guitar and a beautiful voice talking about a deep gloomy night, asking for light and hope. The images described on the lyrics, full of flowers, water and heartbreak, bring a bittersweet interpretation on what failure is. "In a world that revolves around the culture of success, failure is what people don't want to talk about too much. It's something that is not shown, but that deep down is as close to desire, ambition, and success, as the shadow that sticks to you when you walk" 

Raquel San Nicolas is a photographer and director born in Tenerife (Canary Islands - Spain). She has worked in diverse artistic and commercial projects across Europe, with a particular emphasis on music videos and fashion films shot either Paris or the Canary Islands. The sharp contrast between her quiet hometown and the bustling french capital where she’s been based since 2018 has influenced her video and photography work, resulting in screen images filled with a particular sense of nostalgia. Her personal works focus on the simplicity and beauty of everyday life, creating images with characters and places wrapped in tranquility and warm melancholy.