MAN RAY'S "EMAK BAKIA"
On Thursday, November 11 at 7:30pm, this classic Dadaist film by the American artist, Man Ray, will be shown at ONE YEAR IN LA in 16mm, not video. Free admission.
"Emak Bakia" as described on the gethiroshima.com website:
Emak-Bakia (1926), a baffling, perhaps typical Dadaist-surrealist film, involves a series of illusive, unrecognizable monochrome images juxtaposed with more naturalistic scenes. Out of focus shots through glass and the sexualized dream-like atmosphere is redolent of Surrealism's Freudian preoccupations. The title, by the way, means something like "go away and leave me alone" in Basque.
or on frenchfilms.topcities.com:
Of the small handful of films which the great surrealist artist Man Ray made in the 1920s, Emak-Bakia is arguably the one which adheres most closely to the principles of Dadaist surrealism. It is also perhaps the most baffling of Man Ray’s films, involving some of his most extraordinary abstract visual imagery, with far less recognisable images than his other films, such as L’Étoile de mer and Les Mystères du château de Dé. The film is in fact closer in style to Man Ray’s 1923 experimental short film, Le Retour à la raison, and uses some of the techniques which the artist invented for that film. The title “Emak-Bakia” was taken from an old Basque expression, which translates as "Don't bother me."
Come see for yourself.