The aptly named Juan Mariné is a film restorer and technician at the Film School of Madrid. The university’s basement film lab, dubbed The Submarine, is home to the immense and imposing machine he maintains and operates to clean and restore celluloid prints that are only slightly older than his own 95 years. Working on both ends of film’s technological spectrum to breathe new life into lost light and broken shadows, the human subject and his mechanical contraption are rendered in crystalline black and white, recalling a bygone era and enhancing the lyrical (and literal) onscreen immersion. TM