{"id":9655,"date":"2025-07-15T12:02:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proyector.info\/profile\/jose-val-del-omar\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T12:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:03:28","slug":"jose-val-del-omar","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/proyector.info\/en\/profile\/jose-val-del-omar\/","title":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Val del Omar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Jos\u00e9 Val del Omar (Granada, October 27, 1904 \u2013 Madrid, August 4, 1982) was a Spanish photographer, film director and inventor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>He worked in the Pedagogical Missions of the Second Republic, a contemporary of Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Josep Renau, Mar\u00eda Zambrano and other members of the so-called \u00abSilver Age\u00bb cut short be the coup d\u2019\u00e9tat of 1936, the Civil War and repression.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Val del Omar was a fervent advocate of cinema, a belief he articulated through the acronym PLAT, representing the comprehensive concept of Picto-Light-Audio-Tactile. As early as 1928, he anticipated several of his most characteristic techniques, such as \u00abnon-panoramic image overflow,\u00bb which transcended the confines of the screen, and the notion of \u00abtactile vision.\u00bb These techniques, along with \u00abdiaphonic sound\u00bb and other explorations in the realm of sound, were employed in his Elemental Triptych of Spain, comprising \u00abAguaespejo Granadino\u00bb (1953\u201355), \u00abFuego en Castilla\u00bb (1958\u201360), and \u00abAcari\u00f1o Galaico\u00bb (1961 \/ 1981\u201382 \/ 1995), the last of which was completed posthumously. 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