He is the author of the books Alfred
Hitchcock, the power of the image (1987), Martin Scorsese, living
through cinema (1999) and Key movies from the
historical movement cinema (2009). He currently writes for the La Vanguardia newspaper’s weekly
cultural supplement.
After working as Assistant
Director on several different productions, in 1983 he wrote and directed his
first professional short film, Tie Break, which was selected for
several international film festivals. Soon after he directed another short
film, Eternal history (1985),
selected by the Alcala de Henares Film Festival for a special feature on the
best Spanish short films of the eighties.
Visions of a
stranger (1990)
was his first feature film,
a highly personal film which obtained the Actors and Directors Association
Award for the best actor of the year (Pep Munné) and which was selected for
Figueira da Foz's International
Festival.
In the following years he
worked as director and executive producer on many pop music videos, with his
video for Any Given Wednesday (1992)
garnering a number of awards.
In 2001, Alberich directed the
TV film One day, one night, defined by critics as an
“intense and sensitive" drama. In 2004 he directed another made-for-TV
movie, Red Sea, a thriller featuring Spanish
star Maribel Verdú which has enjoyed international success.
TRANSGRESSION is his second
thriller and as he himself puts it, it is a movie where he continues to
demonstrate a remarkable ability to portray characters and their feelings.
In this movie, the director
seeks to do something new, to record his vision from zero avoiding influences,
but at the same time allowing them to show on the subtext of the film.
According to Alberich, TRANSGRESSION is a film that “needs rythm”, and
therefore will have a fast editing pace. This film will be completely different
from his first feature film, Visions of a
Stranger, but will have some points in common with Red Sea, especially on
the style, light and rythm; even if this movie will be shot in a panoramic
format that allows to go beyond while playing with the image, and therefore
will allow a deeper spectacle.
Alberich is a director who
seeks to portrait the complexity of the characters and his inner world; his
taste for questioning the human mind and behaviour that makes his characters
real, with virtues and defects, without artificiality. This brings them more
realism and facilitates the identification with the public.
