You can’t always outrun the baggage weighing you down from your past. Emmy award winner James A. Castillo ’s latest animated short film, The Quinta’s Ghost ( El fantasma de la Quinta ), offers a glimpse into the life of a man tormented by his demons, which he tries to exorcise through painting dark artworks on his villa walls. The man in question? Francisco de Goya.

The 17-minute short film centers on the latter half of the Spanish romantic painter’s life, a period known as the dark era, when his work became increasingly gloomy and terrifying after an unknown illness left him deaf. Plagued by deafness, losing seven of his eight children, civil wars transpiring in Madrid and the decline of his mental and physical health, Goya tried to seek catharsis in The Black Paintings, a series o

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