José Antonio Sistiaga
2021Fragmentos para una historia del otro cine español
Andrés Hispano
Frederic Amat, Adolfo Arrieta
Documentary about the history of experimental cinema in Spain. FRAGMENTS is a historical survey of “the other” Spanish Cinema — films that brazenly explored their artistic, poetic and conceptual potential. Spanish experimental cinema can be glimpsed in a series of important yet isolated events that FRAGMENTS compiles through various firsthand accounts, film excerpts and documents. For the first time in Spain, a documentary brings together the most relevant of a cinema that is slowly losing its invisibility.
Fragmentos para una historia del otro cine español
...ere erera baleibu izik subua aruaren...
José Antonio Sistiaga
An experimental film: dozens of pictorial techniques applied directly on celluloid; a work of impressive aesthetics that recovers certain ideas of abstract expressionism: endless chromaticism, constant mutations, the music of the cosmos, mysticism, synesthesia… and an enigmatic title that, although it imitates the phonetics of the Basque language, means nothing.
… ere erera baleibu izik subua aruaren…
Impresiones en la alta atmósfera
José Antonio Sistiaga
Beñat Achiary
Sistiaga painted directly on 70mm film a circular (planetary?) form, around which dance shifting colours in a psychedelic acceleration matched by the soundtrack’s deep-space roar and howl. - Cinema Scope
Impressions from the Upper Atmosphere
En un paisaje imaginado
Josu Venero
José Antonio Sistiaga
A dynamic visual journey through the films of José Antonio Sistiaga, for his paintings, of fruitful and relevant experience, for his erotic work, and their personal experiences and more endearing.
Imagined Landscape
Han (sobre el sol)
José Antonio Sistiaga
Han closes a trilogy that began with Ere erera baleibu... (1968) and continued with Impressions en haute atmosphère (1991), which goes from the microcosm of atoms (Ere Erera) to the macrocosm of cosmic galaxies. After an "informal" abstraction obtained through the projection of fine particles on a transparent film tape from which all notion of form is shunned, the artist reintroduced in his following movies simple shapes, circles and spirals, coils, reproduced according to the most traditional technique of movement decomposition (animation cinema), which "channels" Brownian motion of matter.
Han (on the sun)
