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A free approach to the missing last link with which the Andalusian filmmaker José Val del Omar intended to culminate his life’s work, made up of what he described as lyrical documentaries, cinegraphies or elementaries. The elementary is a powerfully poetic declension of the documentary. After the elementaries of water, fire and earth that go to make up his Tríptico Elemental de España [Elementary Triptych of Spain], Val del Omar was preparing to add a fourth film that would be the vertex and vortex of his entire work.
New visions of Granada – the counterpoint of the Arab-Andalusian culture that Val del Omar felt in his veins and the hurried glances of the hordes of tourists strolling between the closed paradise of the Alhambra and the open gardens of the Generalife – give way to the dynamic, increasingly abstract and profuse ecstasy of images, of a time without clocks, without space, without feet or ground to stand on… Only to return once again to the everyday and the mundane in the form of film footage by Val del Omar that is more private or diaristic in character, before coming at last to the primordial spring or water-mirror of life.
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