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192618 minPGdocumentary

6.8/ 10(65 ratings)• TMDB

Emak-Bakia

192618 minPGdocumentary

6.8/ 10(65 ratings)• TMDB

A surreal quest through visual poetry and art in Man Ray's masterpiece.

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A surreal quest through visual poetry and art in Man Ray's masterpiece.

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Emak-Bakia (Basque for Leave me alone) is a 1926 film directed by Man Ray. Subtitled as a cinépoéme, it features many techniques Man Ray used in his still photography (for which he is better known), including Rayographs, double exposure, soft focus and ambiguous features. The film features sculptures by Pablo Picasso, and some of Man Ray's mathematical objects both still and animated using a stop motion technique.

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