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Variaciones sobre una granada
Variations on a Pomegranate





Variaciones sobre una granada
1975. José Val del Omar
Courtesy of CCCB







Variaciones sobre una granada
1975. José Val del Omar
Courtesy of CCCB








Variaciones sobre una granada
1975. José Val del Omar
Courtesy of CCCB








Variaciones sobre una granada
1975. José Val del Omar
Courtesy of CCCB








Variaciones sobre una granada
1975. José Val del Omar
Courtesy of CCCB








Variaciones sobre una granada
1975. José Val del Omar
Courtesy of CCCB







Variaciones sobre una granada
1975. José Val del Omar
Courtesy of CCCB








Variaciones sobre una granada
1975. José Val del Omar
Courtesy of CCCB







Variaciones sobre una granada
1975. José Val del Omar
Courtesy of CCCB








Variaciones sobre una granada
1975. José Val del Omar
Courtesy of CCCB







Variaciones sobre una Granada / Variations on a pomegranate

ca. 1975 - 35mm Bi-Standard, colour, silent, approx. 3 minutes

All stills courtesy of XCENTRIC CINEMA . CCCB | Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona


"This short reel is a kind of cinematographic still-life: on the basis of an arrangement of pomegranates, the fruit emblematic of Granada, it combines animation (single-frame or stop-motion cinematography) and picto-luminic techniques which in turn draw on a whole battery of resources:

- Images, figurative or abstract, that are projected onto and coupled anamorphically to the spherical forms of the pomegranates.
- Warps and flashes produced by the incident impact of the laser and other light sources.
- Translucent elements that act as filters in front of the lens and that add sensations of relief or special texture effects.
- Sections and details of the inner flesh of the pomegranates: their red seeds, their outer skin and the yellow membranes that envelop them.
- Kaleidoscopic and prismatic effects achieved with simple optical devices.
- Zooms in and out, with vertiginous close-ups of the vivified still-life of the pomegranates.

This is, then, one of the finest examples of the ''picto-luminic attempts'' in which Val del Omar was engaged during the last years of his life, together with the records or notes that he filmed in Super-8 of other alchemies of light, images and commonplace objects."

From the José Val del Omar official website

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