| [Filmespaña, supplement no. 3, 1961] |
SPIRIT
''In Spain, every spring death comes and raises the curtains.''
These lines [by Federico García Lorca] reveals an invisible mechanics in which we find ourselves immersed and, as compared to colds shine wither, advises set fire to the man.
FUEGO EN CASTILLA is a ''somnambulist essay in TactileVision'', where the Spanish Spirit (Duende) – torn in vertical delirium of realism and mysticism, in black and white and silent palpitation – attempts a self-x-ray of its fury.
FURY
On the Plateau of Fright
and in the night of a palpable world,
a dry fury, crazed, blind and ardent,
seeks to cross from West to East,
from a vertigo in flight toward ecstasy.
Vertical delirium, torn palpitation,
between the infrared realism of the single-cells
and the ultraviolet mysticism of weightlessness.
FIRE
Castilla presents itself
without colour, without melody, without timbres
and... without words.
In a jondo monorhythm
of a blind trembling of nails,
before the world that is near
and disposed to immerse itself
in the great spectacle of the invasion
of the Vale of Differences
by the Fire that restores us to Unity.
Man must be enlightened with the temperature.
MECHA-MYSTICAL
The constant attraction of Mystery and our situation and tendency to Unity must be brought to life by means of the aseptic instrumental exactitude of the progressive automatic.
Cinema is the great instrument that reveals the mecha-mystical, or rather that invisible mechanics in which we find ourselves immersed.
If man advances in space, it will be healthy for the mortal to be illuminated with temporal lights to rest in it incorruptible.
Life is only a slowed-down explosion, and I try to compress it to turn it into ecstasy: into eternal instant.
LUMINOUS CUBISM
TactilVisión offers us a temporal cubic perspective.
TactilVisión is produced by a programmed accumulation of projective (not optical) presents.
The speed of succession of these, sometimes 24 per second and up to 60 now possible, saturates the spectator who, in the end, inevitably surrenders to the unity of the cubic whole.
A Spanish pictorial tradition that, by reflective arc, over time will provide news of the substance and the temperature. The day will come when this Electronic Fire in Castilla will be seen as the beginning of a new phase.
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