José Antonio Sistiaga (San Sebastian, 1932) is one of the leading names in Basque contemporary art. In 1965, along with artists like Jorge Oteiza, Eduardo Chillida and Néstor Basterretxea, he founded the avant-garde group, GAUR. Sis- tiaga’s film painting work began in 1968 with the short film, De la luna a Euskadi (From the Moon to the Basque Country), and continued two years later making the experi- mental feature film, Ere erera balei- bu izik subua aruaren, the world’s first feature film using the direct cinema technique and without any sound accompaniment.