Galician Caress (Of Clay)

The third part of the Tríptico Elemental, a Spanish trilogy. With this series of short movies, the director intends to move past the status of the documentary imagery. Val del Omar proposes a mythical exploration of his country, through three different regions: Andalusia, Castile and Galicia. The director draws inspiration from his country’s artistic traditions, incorporating culture and art history.

Galician Caress (Of Clay) presents the works of a sculptor Arturo Baltar, represented in a sort of a live sculpture. This film was restored in 1995 by Javier Codesal for Filmoteca de Andalucia.

Duration: 23
Production year: 1995
Country: Spain
Subtitles: Subtitles: English

José Val del Omar

Filmmaker, inventor, poet, graphic artist among others, José Val del Omar (Granada, 1904 - Madrid, 1982) is very closely linked to the medium of film as a cursed creator, an eccentric in the context of Spanish filmmaking which does not favour experimentation. Over time he has gradually become a cult figure.
Val del Omar largely devotes himself to technological explorations, both in aspects concerning cinema as well as the challenges posed in his time. The filmmaker wanted a total cinema. That is why he invented a variable-angle lens so that the camera's lens would mimic the physiological versatility of the human eye, in other words he invented the zoom before Zoomar's Germans popularised it. He wanted to integrate even smells and flavours in cinema and in this sense he is a pioneer of virtual reality.

Original title: Acariño Galaico (de barro)

José Val del Omar

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