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	The Basque Ball
		Basque filmaker's editing idiosyncracy of cross cutting between interviewees telling different aspects of the Basque conflict has drawn violent criticism from government ministers, none of which attended the films preview.
		The conflict between Spanish and Basque nationalism dates back to fascist dictator Franco, under Franco's fascist rule the Basques were subjected to widespread social and cultural prejudices, He prohibited Euskera (Basque language) and their traditions and were often treated violently.
		Players strike a hard ball against the wall, a form of dialogue and the ball is a point of union between to sides that are fighting one another.
	www.student.city.ac.uk /~ra829/last.html (881 words)

	OINKARI BASQUE DANCERS
		The friendship between the groups, born of a common heritage and love of the Basque tradition of dance, lead to the naming of the Basque American "dream" group after their Basque Country friends.
		The dancers are not professional performers but their innate respect for their culture heritage makes Oinkari performances a whirl of flying feet and snapping fingers, a thrilling combination of leaping enthusiasm and studied precision, exciting, ancient music and shouts of exhortation in the language of the Pyrenees.
		All the dancers are of Basque descent and at least some are able to speak some of the Basque language.
	www.basqueclubs.com /clubs/oinkari.htm (635 words)

	Buber's Basque Page: Pelota
		At the last world championship of Basque pelota in Cuba, the Basque team was allowed to march independently from the Spanish team.
		There are different ways of playing Basque pelota: with the hand, a bat, "remonte" and "cesta", which are types of baskets, and "trinquete" and "share", two kinds of rackets.
		a tennis racquet is used with a cordage slightly reinforced and the ball is hollowed and weighs 45 grs.
	www.buber.net /Basque/Sports/pelota1.html (563 words)

	Area Basques treasure the motherland (printable version)
		Yet Basques never assimilated into those cultures, Ugalde said, probably because of the language barrier and because the land itself — rocky and unsuitable for farming — was not attractive to the conquerors.
		Basques in France lost their autonomy after the French Revolution in 1789 and in Spain by the early 1800s.
		Basque Club board member Ken Barrenchea recalled visiting the area in 1975, and finding it “a lot more modern than I anticipated.” Years later, when friends from the Basque country visited Reno and attended the Basque Festival, Barrenchea said they were surprised to see Basques dressed in costumes from 80 years ago.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=38727 (849 words)

	Pelota vasca. La piel contra la piedra, La (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Even though the movie is not completely objective, and it compares victims of terrorism to the families of the terrorists, there are very intelligent opinions made by very intelligent thinkers, politicians and journalists who are affected directly by the basque problem.
		There are also interesting comments made by those who are in favor of the basque autodetermination, including those who "support" terrorism.
		I highly recommend this movie to anyone who is concerned with the basque problem and/or with Spain.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0382898 (369 words)

	Arts \| The Basque Ball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Julio Medem's documentary about Basque identity was completed before this event, and has in fact little or nothing to say about the new geopolitical context of terrorism and nationalism - which gives his film a slightly parochial flavour.
		But it is a thoughtful meditation on the nature of Basque nationalism based on interviews, movie clips, and extracts from Orson Welles's 1955 TV documentary.
		The Basque people have long been marginalised and oppressed within the Spanish state, yet is there not something reactionary or even fascist in yearning for an inward-looking secessionist state monolithically based on culture and race?
	arts.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4923210-110760,00.html (187 words)

	Medem Controversy
		Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone, which has this title in honour of the previous fictional character Aitor, was shot with two small digital cameras (DVCAM) and a team of ten people during May-July 2002.
		Basque TV (Euskal Telebista ETB2) made a programme which included an interview with the director followed by a round table discussion (including the two members of Foro de Ermua whose interviews were finally not removed) on the documentary.
		Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone is expected to be released on DVD in an extended edition with a running time of five hours.
	www.filmireland.net /exclusives/medem.htm (1209 words)

	BEO - Basque Film Series
		The controversy engendered by Julio Medem's Basque Ball: The Skin Against the Stone is only the latest bout in a struggle to represent and explore Basque identity on film.
		Meanwhile, the distinctive delights of Basque hospitality led to the establishment of the San Sebastian Film Festival in 1953, and various short film and documentary festivals followed.
		Basque documentarists sought to express the contrast and discord that defined their relationship with the centralized Francoist film industry and, though deprived of Euskera, their juxtaposition of sounds and images created an equivalent language of conflict that culminated in the introspective Ama Lur (1968).
	www.basqueed.org /BasqueFilmSeries.htm (1114 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Basque History of the World: Books: Mark Kurlansky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A history of the Basque people of Spain speculates on the origins of this enigmatic group of Europeans whose language and culture have long baffled anthropologists.
		Consequently, the birth of local Basque wall graffiti, "four plus three equals one." "The Basque History of the World," is a comprehensive historical portrait of a proud people.
		The coverage of the American influence on Basque feelings and the effect of Franco on the immediate lives of the Basque people was electrifying.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Basque-History-World-Mark-Kurlansky/dp/0802713491 (1209 words)

	Basque Club - Euskal Pilota
		The Basque Ball, an emotionally-charged documentary by the acclaimed director Julio Medem, which urges the authorities in Madrid to reopen talks with Basque extremists, was cheered at the San Sebastian film festival after convulsing Spain in an ugly debate over whether it should be outlawed.
		But many anti-secessionist Basques have rallied to Medem's defense, with the socialist mayor of San Sebastian Odon Elorza claiming the clock was being turned back to the "time when the man with the little moustache (Franco) covered women's breasts, had the bottoms of nudes draped and eliminated all 'red' films...
		Medem, the director of Sex and Lucia, the Red Squirrel, and Cows, claimed he was not a nationalist, but despaired at the division the lack of dialogue was causing in the Basque country, almost half of whose inhabitants are "immigrants" from the rest of Spain, drawn by its relative prosperity.
	www.basqueclub.com /Medem.htm (801 words)

	kamera.co.uk - film review - Basqueball directed by Director: Julio Medem - reviewed by Darren ...
		Basque Ball deals exclusively with the problems surrounding the conflict in the Basque region, which straddles France and Spain.
		Its indigenous people have long since tantalised us with the air of mystery that surrounds their origins: exactly where they came from cannot be determined, and the Basque language stood firm against the tide of Latin that swept over Europe, effectively making it a tongue related to no other.
		Medem has come in for some well-publicised criticism for daring to make Basque Ball (and given that the director was born in Basque country, this was somewhat inevitable), but in truth it's a remarkably even-handed treatment of an inflammatory subject matter.
	www.kamera.co.uk /reviews_extra/basqueball.php (454 words)

	Guethary, Pays Basque, Basque country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It's animated all year round by pelote basque, singing, dancing and traditional fairs and it's really pleasant to stroll under plane trees or to savor a moment of relaxation.
		The particular layout of the basques churches can be seen in Guethary's one, the wide and high choir and altar are dominated by galleries which surround the nave.
		ll the fervour of the basque faith expresses itself when the voices of the women gathered in the nave blend with the powerfull voices of the men in galleries.
	www.guethary-france.com /anglais/presentationuk.asp (575 words)

	Review: âThe Basque Ballâ
		The Basque Ball opens on general release this month in Britain, following the political earthquake in Spain that led to the downfall of the PP government.
		ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuma), translated as 'Basque Homeland and Freedom', was established in 1959, under Franco's right-wing dictatorship, when the Basque language was banned and Basques faced severe repression.
		Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the state used repressive methods against Basque people, including during the rule of the 'socialist' government of Felip Gonzalez, which organised death squads (in the film, Gonzalez both denies the existence of the death squads and also tries to justify 'extra judicial' actions).
	www.socialistworld.net /eng/2004/06/01review.html (1154 words)

	Hoganstand.com
		The Basque team wanted to play the Irish game and did not want a compromise game so that his players would get a better idea what level they are at the present time.
		Gonzalez did extremely well to return an awkward ball from the back of the court and Coonan somehow with the ball at his mercy drove the ball into the floor very close to the front wall giving the Basque player a rather lucky score.
		With the games officially over the Basque team produced their handball - a large weighty grey ball weighing 100 grammes - more than twice the weight what the Irish players are used to.
	hoganstand.com /handball/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=55459 (1674 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - The Basque Ball - Skin Against Stone
		A few years ago, a two-hour, interview-based documentary on the Basque conflict would have little chance of making it to the cinema.
		Julio Medem hails from the Basque country and made his name directing movies like 'Sex and Lucia' and 'The Lovers of the Arctic Circle'.
		'The Basque Ball' is his personal project, painstakingly constructed from hundreds of hours of interviews with protagonists of the bloody Basque nationalist conflict.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2004/0610/thebasqueball.html (402 words)

	BBC - Films - Basque Ball (La Pelota Vasca: La Piel Contra La Piedra) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		With over 100 interviews and reels upon reels of archive footage, Basque Ball is an incisive documentary on Spain, ETA, and the Basque region.
		Such a response is typical of the passions that the Basque issue stirs up.
		Interviewing a range of artists, politicians, priests, activists, journalists, and academics, Medem delivers a torrent of contradictory opinions, painting a vivid history of both the Basque region and its contested status.
	www.bbc.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /films/2004/05/04/basque_ball_2004_review.shtml (460 words)

	News Archive Fall 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When the Basque towns of Guernica and Bilbao were bombed by the Nazis in the period prior to WWII, many parents made the decision to evacuate their children to other countries—England, France, Belgium, Mexico—for safekeeping during the conflict.
		Olaziregi spoke to the group and explained that the aim of the series, works translated directly from Basque to English, is to “promote Basque literature abroad and to cross linguistic and cultural borders in order that our literature can be known all around the world.” Later, the two writers read their works for the assemblage.
		CBS Advisory Board member and representative of the Society of Basque Studies in America, Emilia Doyaga, presented a report to the NABO delegates at their Las Vegas meeting October 9 on the Cultural Tour of the Basque Country.
	basque.unr.edu /02/2.1t/2.1.1.19.newsarchive.htm (1947 words)

	Guethary, Pays Basque, Basque country
		The Olharroa's (octopus in Basque language) club birthed in 1925, is one of the eldest Pelote clubs of the French Federation of Pelote Basque (F.F.P.B.).
		The pelote basque (generic term) is the ball which is used in all basque ball games.
		Chistera, Cesta punta : pelote basque's discipline using a wicker glove and an hard ball, practiced on a Fronton (outdoor) or in a Jaï Alaï (indoor).
	www.guethary-france.com /anglais/peloteuk.asp (323 words)

	Julio Medem
		In The Basque Ball, Medem interviews a variety of people about the society, culture, conflict and history of the Basque Country.
		On the other hand, Basque organisations of actors and producers refuted the attacks on Medem and claimed the right of every professional to express themselves freely.
		Five months after The Basque Ball's release, and shortly before the Spanish general elections (which resulted in a change of government), Julio Medem talked to Film Ireland about the creation of the documentary, his intentions, why the film is considered politically controversial, and how he has been affected by the barrage of media harassment.
	www.filmireland.net /98/medeminter.htm (483 words)

	La pelota vasca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		La pelota vasca: la piel contra la piedra (English: The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone; Basque: Euskal pilota: larrua harriaren kontra) is a 2003 documentary motion picture by Spanish filmmaker Julio Medem.
		Due to its lack of contextualization, the film may be hard to understand to audiences without previous knowledge of the Basque problem—it is obviously a film designed to be viewed by Spanish audiences, or people familiar with the issues.
		One of the main controversies of the documentary is that the two principal protagonists in the polemic, the then incumbent Partido Popular and ETA refused to take part in the interviews.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/La_pelota_vasca (487 words)

	La Pelota vasca. La piel contra la piedra - Movie Review (The Basque Ball, Euskal pilota: Larrua harriaren kontra)
		Their land is currently divided into seven regions in southern France and northern Spain - but arguments still rage as to whether they should be fully absorbed into their host nations, attain some autonomy or even outright separatist status.
		Bouncing from one interviewee to the next, but letting all have an equal voice, the film paints a complex picture of Basque history, mythology and identity, with personal, often harrowing, accounts of the past and present outrages committed by Spanish and Basque alike, as well as expressions of hope and fear for the future.
		Yet claims that Medem shows bias towards Basque nationalism will seem simply ridiculous to anyone who has actually watched the documentary - indeed, one of the most striking things about 'The Basque Ball' is just how many of Medem's interviewees have received death threats from Eta.
	www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/668 (713 words)

	Some summarized background information on the Basque Country - Indymedia Ireland
		This article does not include the Navarrian situation neither the one of the basques in the French State.
		As for the basque (spanish also) electoral system, the members of parliament are chosen proportionally.
		In Iruña the occupiers of the Euskal Jai Gaztetxea, where brutally evicted by the police, they were squatting the oldest basque ball playing court and it was about to become 100 years old, which would convert it into humanity trust and therefore not possible to destroy.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=68753 (884 words)

	Freemuse: Censorship in Spain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sarrionandia was in prison, accused of being a member of ETA, when he and a fellow prisoner escaped in the large speakers of a group who had just given a concert at the prison.
		Two of the directors of EITB, the Basque regional television station, are being charged as accessories to terrorism.
		There are also the cases of Basque language newspapers and radio stations being shut down, charged with aiding terrorists, then years later the cases being dropped.
	www.freemuse.org /sw4643.asp (872 words)

	London Film Festival - Films - Featured Film: Basque Ball, the skin against the stone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Medem has assembled for his camera some 70 politicians, intellectuals, artists and victims of violence on all sides of the Basque issue; although sadly not from the two poles of the argument, since both the Spanish government and ETA, the Basque separatist (and terrorist) group declined to take part.
		Welles typically hits at least one nail on the head when he opines that it is impossible to know what a Basque is, “all we know is what the Basque is not”.
		To any objective observer, Basque Ball is remarkably even-handed, with neither ETA (which has killed 800 people in 30 years) nor the government escaping criticism.
	www.lff.org.uk /films_editorials.php?EditorialID=13 (516 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet Column by Phil Ball: Basque ups and downs
		Clemente made his name first as player and then as manager of Basque cousins Athletic Bilbao in the 1980s, and steered them to their last league title in 1984 - the last time that a Basque side won the Spanish championship.
		The facile idea that the Basque Country is some sort of culturally homogenous homeland was nicely exposed by the suspicion of Sociedad's supporters towards the pugnacious little Clemente, and he only lasted just over a season.
		The whole scene in the Basque Country is as fascinating as it is complex, and woe betide the visiting journalist who thinks he or she can get a quick-fix conclusion from a few day's analysis.
	www.soccernet.com /columns/2002/1022/20021022featball.html (1312 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Spanish protest over Basque film
		They were angry that Basque Ball, The Skin Against The Stone by Julio Medem, was nominated for best documentary.
		They said the film was too sympathetic to the Basque separatist group ETA, who have killed more than 850 people.
		The film has interviews with around 70 people, including widows of a politician and policeman killed by ETA, a Basque leader who lost his leg in a bomb but calls for talks, and the wife of a jailed ETA member.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3449035.stm (273 words)

	Cenarrusa Center for Basque Studies - Preserve - Educate - Connect
		The showing of "La Pelota Vasca: la piel contra la piedra" (The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone) is a 2003 documentary motion picture by Spanish filmmaker Julio Medem.
		The Cenarrusa Center for Basque Studies (CCBS) was founded in 2003 to preserve, educate and connect the Basque community and the rest of the world through research, projects and educational opportunities for all.
		The Cenarrusa Center is a joint project between educators, business and cultural groups from the Basque community in Boise, Idaho and works with Boise's Basque Museum and Cultural Center.
	www.cenarrusa.org /news.asp?id=16 (293 words)

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