74SSIFF - 18/26 September 2026
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HAMALAU gau

Oskar Alegria Suescun
Spain      91 m.
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"In this film nighttime will fall 14 times. We will count them as they happen”. This is the beginning of this journey through the night and music, a drift through the thoughts of Basque artist Jorge Oteiza, dominated by one particular night: the one spent at the Basilica of Arantzazu. There we experience the longest night, beside the church organ, in which the filmmaker Oskar Alegria encloses himself to tell the 14 nights to the pianist Iñar Sastre, convened to imagine through the keys a series of images that the musician won’t see. From this challenge will emerge a collection of 14 moons, 14 darknesses, 14 mysteries making up a same frieze. 14, like the number of apostles that Oteiza succeeded in placing on the façade of that same place, and 14 because, as he himself said, “there was no space for more”.  ​

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Oskar Alegria Suescun (Spain)
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Spain
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