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10/15 December 2013

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La casa Emak Bakia
Spain, 2012, 83', Blue-Ray, color, b/n

director
Oskar Alegría
screenplay
Oskar Alegría
cinematography
Oskar Alegría
editing
Oskar Alegría
sound
Abel Hernández

producer
Oskar Alegría
production
Emak Bakia films
Plaza Merindades 3-ppal izda, Pamplona, Spain

La casa Emak Bakia is an original documentary in a category all its own, on the search for the villa near Biarritz, in the southeast of France, where Man Ray filmed his celebrated 1927 cinepoem, Emak Bakia (Basque for "Leave me alone"). The filmmaker embarks upon an exploration of the mansion, knowing only the pictures of its door and its two pillars, and the title. Was it named after a house? Or an inscription on a gravestone? There is no mention of it in the archives and today no one remembers the place. Ultimately, the detours, unique encounters and fascinating and mysterious stories that he discovers along the way render the journey more important than the destination.

"I'm a journalist. But in this project I wanted to kill the journalist. I wanted to be another person: more poetic, more creative. I think we all have to do something called Emak Bakia in our life." [Oskar Alegría]

Oskar Alegría began working as a reporter in Madrid for the Canal+ and CNN+ news programmes. Since 2002, he has been writing travel features for the El Viajero supplement of El País and directed the documentary series on Basque cooking Maestros de la cocina vasca and the shortArchitecture et Nourriture (2011). He teaches documentary screenwriting at the University of Navarra and is working on an artistic project of urban photography called The Visible Cities.

2012 La casa Emak Bakia (doc)


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