Iván Zulueta was born Juan Ricardo Miguel due to the Russian origin of that name, which was not allowed by anti-communist Franco's Spanish State, in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain.
His father was a lawyer; even though he combined his job with other activities, such as director of the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Zulueta discovered pop art, Nouvelle Vague, the New American Cinema and artists such as Jonas Mekas and John Cassavetes.
And the second one, called Ida y Vuelta (Round Trip), based on a short story by William Jenkins.
In 1968, Jose Luis Borau, his teacher in the Film School, produced a TV show called Ultimo Grito (Latest Trends).
The film was a musical which made fun of Eurovision contest with a Richard Lester style.
Jose Luis Borau provided Zulueta with unused film from his newly created production company.
This visual style was very popular in those years, used by other directors and achieving a peak with the eminent Koyaanisqatsi (1983).
Ivan Zulueta proposed to hit other non-underground segments of the public by directing a short movie and releasing it.
However, it was shot in real interiors owned by Zulueta and other friends, like Jaime Chavarri; and most of collaborators used drugs like heroin, that drove the planning and the budget to be highly increased.
Moreover, the film had a lot of problems to be commercially released due to its experimental and underground style; even though the Spanish transition to democracy had already occurred.
Both were traced by Zulueta’s style, visual obsessions, circular screenplay, format mixing (film and video) and a fragmented editing which reminded some of David Lynch movies.