Director: Tom Haines
Producer: Ilduara Lamas & Tom Haines
Exec Producer: Tamasin Glasson & James Studholme
Original Soundtrack: UNKLE
DOP: Steve Annis
Sound Recordist: Andy Paddon
Editor: Julian Eguiguren
Sound Design: Sven Taits
Colourist: Ben Rogers
Camera Assistant: Alvaro Gonzalez
Runner: Miguel Costa
Luminarias is a short visual documentary that mixes powerful images
captured during the two day “Luminarias” fiesta in San Bartolome de
Pinares, Spain, with a rich soundtrack comprised of an original UNKLE
score, location sounds and a reading of the Rafael Alberti poem
“Galope”.
Using grainy 16mm film, Luminarias portrays the drama, confusion and
traditions of the event in a painterly way, while the multi-layered
collage of sound design and music and text render the drama of the
fiesta. The festival takes place every January and involves “cleansing”
horses and their riders as they pass through burning pine brush.
Horsemen and women of all ages from infants to octogenarians take part
in the purification and despite the dramatic, sometimes scary images
Haines has captured here, accentuated by slow-motion photography, there
is an overwhelming sense of pride, respect and care that the villagers
have towards their animals, as one rider said “Luminarias is something
from another world, for me a horse is a King, I understand and love
horses”.
