Analphabet

At dusk, after a heated argument between a couple on Gulpiyuri beach, a ghost named Analphabet appears over the sea, telling her story and singing songs to them.

Analphabet is the invention of a myth: that of a romantic spirit who manifests herself to couples in natural settings and lives imprisoned in the wound of their flesh. Her appearance highlights the ravine we call “lovers” and the abuse we subject ourselves to within this loving structure. Her personal story opens the door to intra-gender violence and exposes the need for extreme care in gay relationships permeated by patriarchal heritage.

As a tormented spirit, she draws from the poetry of German Romanticism and its landscapes (Goethe, Hölderlin, and Novalis all contributed to this writing), but she also draws on Andalusian idiosyncrasies and the mortal wound of a love affair in Basque Country. The ghost, although he comes dying and wounded on a horse, brings with him a hope: what poetry can do for the wound.

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