Rozluźnienie śrubek, czyli Emak Bakia
Loosening the Screws, Or Emak Bakia

Summary/Abstract: In 1926, Man Ray made the movie “Emak Bakia”, a film poem, which was also one of the manifestos of film Dadaism. Part of the film was made on the Basque coast, near Biarritz, in the house whose name was “Emak Bakia” – which in Basque means Do not bother me. Almost 90 years later, the Basque director Oskar Alegría decided to find this house, having at his disposal, as a guide, only two frames from the film depicting the shoreline and characteristic columns of the balcony from which the beach was filmed. The record of this search, though documentary, turned out to be as Dadaistic as the film by Man Ray. Not in its form, but in surrendering to the Dadaist element: the journey of Alegría, the road to the designated goal, turned out to be a radical triumph of Dada. Kosińska sees in the strategy of Man Ray and Alegría, a form of celebration: of life, of film, of chance, which without expressing any sense gives the only possible meaning to life.

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