Emak-Bakia

France, 1926

Film
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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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Collection

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Credits

Duration

18:00

Production places
France
Production dates
1926

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-135318

Language

French

Subject category

Documentary

TMDB-Movie

135318

Wikidata

Q1334558

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