Fragmentos para una historia del otro cine español
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Documentary about the history of experimental cinema in Spain. FRAGMENTS is a historical survey of “the other” Spanish Cinema — films that brazenly explored their artistic, poetic and conceptual potential. Spanish experimental cinema can be glimpsed in a series of important yet isolated...
Celluloid filming of video footage, capturing images from a monitor. The latencies caused by the change of format and its blurs activate mechanisms of encounters and concealments. A journey through different fragmented urban surfaces, revealing apparently clandestine situations, raising questions,...
The film uses, almost exclusively, unfinished materials by the Granada-born filmmaker José Val del Omar (1904-1982). This is a free approach to the missing link with which Val del Omar intended to culminate his work, made up of what he described as abstract documentaries, cinematographies or...
