{{short description|1926 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Emak-Bakia (Leave Me Alone) | image = | director = Man Ray | producer = Man Ray | writer = Man Ray | starring = Man Ray<br>Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin)<br>Jacques Rigaut | editing = Man Ray | released = {{Film date|df=yes|1926| | |France}} | country = France | language = Silent | runtime = 19 minutes }} '''''Emak Bakia'''''<ref group="n">Various recent sources in English hyphenate the title ('''''Emak-Bakia''''').</ref> (Basque for Leave me alone; full title: '''''Emak Bakia (CInépoème) (Fichez-moi la paix)'''''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Emak Bakia (Cinépoème) (Fichez-moi la paix) |url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/oeuvre/cr4XLj |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=Centre Pompidou |language=en-EN}}</ref>'')'' is a 1926 French surrealist short film directed by Man Ray. Termed as a c''inépoème'' (cinematic poem) by its author,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tate |title='Emak Bakia', Man Ray, 1926, remade 1970 |url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/man-ray-emak-bakia-t07959 |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=Tate |language=en-GB}}</ref> 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.
==Synopsis== thumb|thumbtime=5|''Emak Bakia'' (1926) ''Emak Bakia'' shows elements of fluid mechanical motion in parts, rotating artifacts showing his ideas of everyday objects being extended and rendered useless. Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin) is shown driving a car in a scene through a town. Towards the middle of the film Jacques Rigaut appears dressed in female clothing and make-up. Later in the film a caption appears: "''La raison de cette extravagance''" (the reason for this extravagance). The film then cuts to a car arriving and a passenger leaving with briefcase entering a building, opening the case revealing men's shirt collars which he proceeds to tear in half. The collars are then used as a focus for the film, rotating through double exposures.
==Production== The film features sculptures by Pablo Picasso, and some of Man Ray's mathematical objects both still and animated using a stop motion technique.
Originally a silent film, recent copies have been dubbed using music taken from Man Ray's personal record collection of the time.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Benjamin |first=Elizabeth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QJXvDAAAQBAJ&dq=emak+bakia+music&pg=PA81 |title=Dada and Existentialism: The Authenticity of Ambiguity |date=2016-08-30 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-56368-2 |language=en}}</ref> The musical reconstruction was led by Jacques Guillot.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Sound(track) of Silence: Hearing Things in Dada Film |url=https://pure.coventry.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/12665263/hartscomb.pdf |website=Coventry University Repository}}</ref>
== Release == When the film was first exhibited at the Vieux Colombier theatre,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bouhours |first1=Jean-Michel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R6YqAAAAYAAJ&q=emak+bakia+premiere |title=Man Ray: directeur du mauvais movies |last2=Haas |first2=Patrick de |date=1997 |publisher=Centre Georges Pompidou |isbn=978-2-85850-943-0 |language=fr}}</ref> a man in the audience stood up to complain it was giving him a headache and hurting his eyes. Another man told him to shut up, and they both started to fight. The theatre turned into a frenzy, the fighting ended up out in the street, and the police were called in to stop the riot.{{Cn|date=September 2023}}
== Legacy == In 2012, Spanish director Oskar Alegria directed a feature-length documentary film ''La Casa Emak Bakia'' which details his search for the house where ''Emak Bakia'' was filmed.<ref>{{Citation |title=The Search for Emak Bakia (2012) {{!}} MUBI |url=https://mubi.com/pt/pt/films/the-search-for-emak-bakia |access-date=2023-09-10 |language=pt}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-22 |title=Biennale Cinema 2019 {{!}} The Web Theatre is back for the 76th Venice Film Festival |url=https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/web-theatre-back-76th-venice-film-festival |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=La Biennale di Venezia |language=en}}</ref>
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==Sources== * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070601170537/http://www.cinescene.com/flicks/flicks042001.html Chris Dashiell, ''Flicks'' (March 2001)]}}
==See also== *Cinéma Pur *Dadaist poets *Surrealist cinema
==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0125073|title=Emak-Bakia}} *[http://www.ubu.com/film/ray.html Downloadable version of the film at ubu.com]
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