Música, mujeres y simulacros: la imagen de la feminidad en Zuloak de Fermin Muguruza
Music, Women, and Simulacra: the Image of Femininity in “Zuloak” by Fermin Muguruza

Summary/Abstract: Although Basque Radical Rock was a powerful musical movement that marked a whole generation, the presence of female groups within was limited. Fermin Muguruza, one of the most important characters of this movement, takes as his point of departure the absence of women in the Basque punk rock music in his mockumentary Zuloak (2012). The film is about a female rock group called “Zuloak”, which was created to make the documentary but gave concerts also after the screen. In this way Muguruza created, in reference to the theory of Jean Baudrillard (1978), a kind of simulacrum. In the present article, using the “anthropologicalmorphological analysis” (method that focuses on the links between the form of the film, its content and references, to reality outside fiction) I will analyze which models of “femininity” are used in the film and how the director’s vision of the situation of the Basque scene can be interpreted from the perspective of the concept of hyperreality.

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