Ocaña, la memoria del sol (2010)
1h 39m
Running Time
January 18, 2010Release Date
Ocaña, la memoria del sol (2010)
1h 39m
Running Time
January 18, 2010Release Date
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José Pérez Ocaña was one of the symbols of the counter-culture in 1970s' Spain. He was of Andalusian origin but adopted Barcelona as his hometown and Las Ramblas as his stage, where he promenaded in drag. He died in 1983, at only 36 . A painter, famous for his Andalusian virgins (et alia), he was a radical and multifaceted artist during the last years of Franco's dictatorship and during the period of transition towards democracy. An inveterate provocateur, he used transvestitism, surreal performances and extreme fetish acts as forms of artistic resistance, and he was a GLBT activist in the struggle for civil rights. This film features the memories of his family members and friends (Nazario, Jesús Garay and Gérard Courant) and rare historical footage from that period, some never previously released.
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Ocaa, the memory of the sun is a documentary about the life and work of José Pérez Ocaa. This biographical documentary tries to recover the memory of Ocaa as a rupturist figure, as a person who fought against the rules imposed, which is beyond the artist who was, thus seen from a more universalist perspective. The recording evokes various aspects of the character, from paintings of popular devotion to the virgin to the defense and celebration of his own body and of his own right and alien to exist and be at liberty.