The triptych is closed with Water-Mirror of Granada, which according to Amos Vogel is “an explosive, cruel, and deeply passionate piece; a silent cry that constitutes a mystical evocation of Spain’s nightmare. With echoes of Buñuel’s Land Without Bread, it manages to transmit anxiety and nameless terror. One of the masterpieces ignored by world cinema.” Cinematographic poetry that emerges from the fountains of the Alhambra.
Section: José Val del OmarD, G, F, E, DA, S, P: José Val del Omar
M: José Val del Omar, Manuel de Falla
Teófilo Martínez, Pepe Albaicín, Juan Gómez Leal, Señorita Chon, Julián Goya
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...
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25 April 2015
