The Search for Emak Bakia
Director Oskar Alegria
Countries Spain
Duration 83 min
Synopsis
An avant-garde film by Man Ray called Emak Bakia ("Leave me alone" in Basque) inspires this story of a quest. The house near Biarritz where Man Ray's film was shot in 1926 bore that peculiar name and the creator of this new film decided to undertake a search on foot to find it. Only three views of that mansion exist: the image of its front door, two columns of a window, and a section of nearby coast. A search based on these old images would not be easy. There was nothing listed in the archives and no one today remembers the house. Therefore, he would ask for help and assistance from other informers, such as chance and the wind.
An avant-garde film by Man Ray called Emak Bakia ("Leave me alone" in Basque) inspires this story of a quest. The house near Biarritz where Man Ray's film was shot in 1926 bore that peculiar name and the creator of this new film decided to undertake a search on foot to find it. Only three views of that mansion exist: the image of its front door, two columns of a window, and a section of nearby coast. A search based on these old images would not be easy. There was nothing listed in the archives and no one today remembers the house. Therefore, he would ask for help and assistance from other informers, such as chance and the wind.