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Fire in Castilla
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Fuego en Castilla / Fire in Castilla
(Tactilvisión del páramo del espanto) / (Tactilevision of the plateau of fright)

Direction, script, photography, effects, art direction, editing and final voice-over: José Val del Omar. Lighting: TactilVisión, a system patented by José Val del Omar in 1995. Sound system: diaphonic sound, patented by José Val del Omar in 1944. Sound composition: José Val del Omar, including excerpts from Spanish Renaissance music, Stravinsky and mambo jazz and ''Castilian Siguiriya'' rhythms performed by Vicente Escudero. Sculptures: St Ann by Juan de Juni, St Sebastian by Alonso Berruguete, and other pieces and images from the Museo Nacional de Escultura Religiosa in Valladolid. Production: Hermic Films.

1958-1960 - 35mm, B&W and colour, Dolby SR, 17 min.


«A somnambulist essay in TactilVisión (the filmmaker's original system of lighting using pulses) on the religious sculptures of the French-born Juan de Juni and the Spaniard Alonso Berruguete, in a cinema that passes from West to East, from the flight into ecstasy.» [JVdO]

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