In a film, which elements of a shot respond to the previous calculation and which are left to chance? While control was decisive in traditional cinema, chance defines and expands the channels of modern cinema. With the advent of digital, it is necessary to review that control-chance relationship in the making of images.

José Luis Guerín (Barcelona, 1960) is the director of films such as En construcción (2001), with which he won the National Film Award and the Goya for best documentary, Innisfree (1990), Tren de sombras (1997), En la ciudad de Sylvia ( 2007) or La academy de las musas (2015).