Jorge Closa Benítez

Creative storyteller based in Barcelona — crafting visual narratives in pursuit of the raw & the authentic. Upon graduating from the Northern Film School (Leeds, UK), I strive to combine both intuitive and conceptual approaches to my work.

For me, cinematic means sensitive, human, and true. An image is not cinematic for what you see in it, but for what it can do to you. Sometimes the most cinematic moment in a film is the cut to black at the end, when you see nothing, yet you feel it all. Thus, it is always my aim to convey a solid message through words and images which can be heard, smelled, and touched, before they can be seen.

These aren’t lessons I was born with, but feelings I was left with after months of travelling on my own. Weeks on retreat in Thailand’s Watchomtong Monastery, teaching English and learning Kung Fu in Ho Chi Minh City, driving through the Atlas mountains, or meeting the Dalai Lama twice in India — are all moments where I could hear, smell, touch and see the words & images I aspire to create through my work.