Zinzindurrunkarratz

Mit den Ohren sehen, mit den Augen hören – ein „walking film“ entlang eines Hirtenweges mit der alten S-8-Kamera des Vaters, begleitet nur vom bewunderten Esel Paolo. Einer für ihn lebendigen Vergangenheit verpflichtet und weitgehend stumm, eröffnet Alegria ein neues Kapitel seiner baskischen Erkundungen von im Verschwinden begriffenen Gesten und ruralen Traditionen. Das heute teure Filmmaterial aus analogen Amateurzeiten zwingt zu poetischer, mithin schelmischer Kürze: fünf Arten, einen Hirtenstock zu halten; das Zimmer eines Pferdezüchters, der, bettlägerig, seine Tiere nur noch im Spiegel sehen kann. Im Nebel der Berge dann das ersehnte Ideal einer weißen Leinwand ohne Erinnerung. (Stephan Settele)

In Anwesenheit von Oskar Alegria.

In ZINZINDURRUNKARRATZ, Oskar Alegria sets out on a journey to recover the past. With a Super-8 camera that belonged to his father and has remained untouched for 41 years, he plans to retrace the path of the shepherd—the journey of transhumance that his grandfather took in his youth whose exact coordinates nobody remembers today. The result is a film that takes delight in both the search and the many detours that come with it. Shot in the north of Spain—between Artazu and the Andia mountain range—ZINZINDURRUNKARRATZ is made of fields, animals, wind, flowers, trees, fires, precious objects and rituals, herbs, blizzards, home movies, family memories, lullabies... Mostly silent, the film is accompanied by on-screen text that poetically complements the images and muses on the creative process. Intermittently, however, snippets of sound make an appearance: like the gold used by the Japanese to mend broken vases, these aural elements serve to unite the fragments and cover the cracks. By paying attention to the gestures of a lost time enacted by previous generations—gestures that are slowly vanishing amidst the technological revolution— Alegria composes a regional song, a family memento and a deeply felt homage to the mother. (Cristina Álvarez López)

In the presence of Oskar Alegria.

Oskar Alegria: THE SEARCH FOR EMAK BAKIA (2012), GURE OROITZAPENAK (2018, KO-REGIE), ZUMIRIKI (2019)