Basque Film Series | Chillida, Esku Huts

TWO IMPORTANT NOTES:

1. The film will be presented by Dr. Larraitz Ariznabarreta, of the William A. Douglass Center for Basque Studies, who will introduce the film and lead a discussion and Q&A after the screening.
2. The BEO will be following CDC guidelines. Please be prepared to wear masks during the show.

SYNOPSIS:

At the age of 19, Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) was a highly gifted athlete well on his way to becoming a football legend. However, a brutal injury during a game put an end to his professional sports career. Nobody except Pilar Belzunce, his life-long partner, suspected that the young goalkeeper from Hernani was about to rewrite his future and die decades later as one of the 20th century’s best sculptors. Chillida: Esku Huts is not a conventional biography, but a poetic, intimate look at an artist second to none. A person who remains alive through his work, his eight children and some of his closest collaborators.

2016, directed by Juan Barrero, color, in Euskara & Castilian with English subtitles, 74 minutes