The Search for Emak Bakia

Synopsis

An avant-garde film by Man Ray entitled Emak Bakia (“Leave me alone” in Basque) unleashes the tale of a search. The house where it was filmed near Biarritz in 1926 had that peculiar name and the author decided to set out on foot to find it. The only things known about the mansion are the picture of its door and its two pillars. There is no mention of it in the archives and today no-one remembers the place. That’s why help and collaboration was asked of other informers like chance and the wind.

Director Biography

Trained as a journalist, he began working as a reporter in Madrid on news programs for Canal Plus and CNN+. He has been an editor of cultural programs and the coordinator of shows dedicated to literature for the television channels Telemadrid and Euskal Telebista. In the area of gastronomic documentary, he has written and co-directed the series “Masters of Basque Cooking” for ETB-telebista with the chefs Arzak, Subijana, Aduriz, Berasategui and Arbelaitz.