{"id":3309,"date":"2002-07-31T19:30:57","date_gmt":"2002-07-31T18:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2018-01-25T15:01:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T15:01:01","slug":"basque-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2002\/07\/31\/basque-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basque Masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE BASQUE MASTERPIECE<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Wednesday 31 July 2002, at 7:30pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> London The Photographers&#8217; Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Ere Erera Baleibu Icik Subua Aruaren<\/em> traverses infinite dimensions in its abstract, cinemascopic passage. This epic voyage was hand painted onto 35mm by the Spanish artist Jos\u00e9 Antonio Sistiaga, and his collaborators, over an eight-month period in 1970. The film\u2019s continually changing chromatic structures almost caused riots at early screenings, but it is now widely regarded as an exemplary achievement of moving visual music and spiritual devotion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jos\u00e9 Antonio Sistiaga, Ere Erera Baleibu Icik Subua Aruaren, 1970, 75 min (Cinemascope)<\/strong><\/p>\n<a onclick=\"wpex_toggle(206266172, 'PROGRAMME NOTES', 'Read less'); return false;\" class=\"wpex-link\" id=\"wpexlink206266172\" href=\"#\">PROGRAMME NOTES<\/a><div class=\"wpex_div\" id=\"wpex206266172\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE BASQUE MASTERPIECE<br \/>\n<\/strong>Wednesday 31 July 2002, at 7:30pm<br \/>\nLondon The Photographers&#8217; Gallery<\/p>\n<p><strong>ERE ERERA BALEIBU ICIK SUBUA ARUAREN<br \/>\nJos\u00e9 Antonio Sistiaga, Spain, 1970, 16mm, colour, silent, 75 min (Cinemascope)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA rare screening of the cameraless, hand-painted, abstract epic commonly referred to as <em>The Basque Masterpiece<\/em>. Jos\u00e9 Antonio Sistiaga (born 1932 in Saint-S\u00e9bastien) began his career as a painter. He was responsible for founding the Gaur group of Basque artists, who conducted research in style and studied the connection between education and art. After his three-part experimental film (his first foray into filmmaking) won an award at the Bilbao festival, he expanded the final section into a feature. More orchestral in form than a Brakhage hand-painted film, Sistiaga\u2019s modulates gradually through monochromatic movements which build to a vibrant multi-coloured finale.\u201d (Cinematheque Ontario programme notes, 2002)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelieve it or not, all 75 minutes are fascinating, with a cumulative satisfaction.\u201d (Dr. William Moritz)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alina Rudnitskaya\u2019s humanistic approach to documentary filmmaking often brings out the humour in her chosen subjects. As an introduction to her work, this programme depicts three diverse groups of contemporary Russian women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infinite-projection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}