Galician Caress was never finished by Val del Omar (who confessed he “couldn’t finish it because the Galicia film is purely tragic, a negative affirmation incapable of communicating”), and it opens this Elementary Tryptich of Spain, which gathers in reverse order the three pillars of his work and condenses the Spanish essence through water, fire, and earth.
Section: José Val del OmarD, G, F: José Val del Omar
E: Javier Codesal
Arturo Baltar, Ezequiel Méndez
Archivo María José Val del Omar
& Gonzalo Sáenz de Buruaga. Piluca Baquero
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Two aspects of Granada-born Jose Val del Omar –who dedicated himself to cinema since his late twenties to his death in 1982– turn him into a unique and complex figure: his search for a collective spiritual ecstasy beyond his artistic ego, and a faith in technique (being the cinema believer he was) as a vehicle for this utopia that is de...
05 May 2015
25 April 2015
25 April 2015
