https://doi.org/10.31648/mkks.3024
The author discusses the artistic achievements of José Val del Omar (1904–1982), a Spanish director whose work remains virtually unknown in Poland, as it was prominent in Franco’s Spain. Val del Omar’s artistic, as well as technical achievements, have become re-discovered and increasingly popular in Spain since the 1990s. Nowadays, he is considered an outstanding representative of the so-called “expanded cinema.” His seventeen-minute-long experimental movie Fuego en Castilla from the early 1960s is analyzed. The movie testifies to the innovative character of Val del Omar’s method and confirms his affirmation of the Spanish national culture and traditions. It is also a fine example of employing technological novelties according to the director’s theoretical assumptions, which make the movie a form of poetic manifesto. The film analysis confirms Val del Omar’s reputation as a thoroughly Spanish artist, an innovator combining visual and verbal effects and crossing the borders between media, as well as between the sender and the recipient, the senses and the text.
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