Viva la muerte

In 1981 Núria Espert recalled the infamous slaughterhouse scene: "It was shot in Viserta, a city in the north of Tunisia. They were going to kill some animals that day; we put a camera in front of them and filmed. Before filming, Arrabal told me what the scene meant and we started filming like a happening. A happening is something that only happens once, it is a theatrical representation that cannot be repeated, because it is based on emotions. "I took out the knife like an actress, I had in mind what Arrabal had spoken to me about and, on the other hand, there was the connection between Nuria the actress and Nuria the person. Then came the unpredictability brought by those thousands of litres of blood and shit. To the point that my body was totally and absolutely out of control. So much so that I felt that I had gone further than I have ever gone before. The musicians of the orchestra, fainted around me, as if we were going to die. Nobody died; we bathed and something else."

When Fando is up at the lighthouse and urinates on the city, a hose behind his legs is clearly visible at times.

Featured in Jonas in the Desert (1994)