An intimate look at a team that expands the edges of gastronomy, at one of the best restaurants in the world; a way of sensing a path that has yet to be built, a look at their philosophy of work, their knowledge, their suffering, talent and enjoyment. A look at Mugaritz, a space that evolves constantly since 1998, when they started walking off the road, just sensing a path.
Campo a través (Off-Road) is a philosophical and ethological documentary about Mugaritz. La Fura dels Baus distils what they consider essential in this world, their most intimate philosophies. The ideas behind the work, the way trouble is overcome, what is suffered and enjoyed, what excellence means to them; to sum up, how Mugaritz is created and destroyed constantly. Risk is constant, that is the idea behind the title, but it is also proof of the wisdom that comes from the effort and work of many people that have been, are and will be in Mugaritz; a place where the culinary goal has been surpassed by the creative process and its possible variations.
Mugaritz stopped being a restaurant a long time ago. It is a live ecosystem; it is an environment for the development of projects, for the establishment of new protocols, where people create from nothing… and they even serve food. La Fura dels Baus does not use any scripted base for the documentary, only the raw testimony of the protagonists; a human team that moves in a space that once seemed unimaginable. Andoni Luis Aduriz dreamt of opening one of the best restaurants in the world, but what he has achieved together with the multidisciplinary team that shapes Mugaritz is far from what he had in mind. Day by day, the team exceeds by far any expectations he had when he first imagined that ideal scenario..
“I’d like this documentary to reflect the capacity of each human being of transcending the impossible; I want it to spark in the viewer the willingness to surpass their own expectations.
ANDONI LUIS ADURIZ. Chef of Mugaritz
“This is an ethological document that studies and reflects the behavior of a multidisciplinary human team, whose work transgresses the frontiers of gastronomy itself.
PEP GATELL. Creative director of La Fura dels Baus
Campo a través (Off-Road) is a philosophical and ethological documentary about Mugaritz. La Fura dels Baus distils what they consider essential in this world, their most intimate philosophies. The ideas behind the work, the way trouble is overcome, what is suffered and enjoyed, what excellence means to them; to sum up, how Mugaritz is created and destroyed constantly. Risk is constant, that is the idea behind the title, but it is also proof of the wisdom that comes from the effort and work of many people that have been, are and will be in Mugaritz; a place where the culinary goal has been surpassed by the creative process and its possible variations.
Mugaritz stopped being a restaurant a long time ago. It is a live ecosystem; it is an environment for the development of projects, for the establishment of new protocols, where people create from nothing… and they even serve food. La Fura dels Baus does not use any scripted base for the documentary, only the raw testimony of the protagonists; a human team that moves in a space that once seemed unimaginable. Andoni Luis Aduriz dreamt of opening one of the best restaurants in the world, but what he has achieved together with the multidisciplinary team that shapes Mugaritz is far from what he had in mind. Day by day, the team exceeds by far any expectations he had when he first imagined that ideal scenario..
“I’d like this documentary to reflect the capacity of each human being of transcending the impossible; I want it to spark in the viewer the willingness to surpass their own expectations.
ANDONI LUIS ADURIZ. Chef of Mugaritz
“This is an ethological document that studies and reflects the behavior of a multidisciplinary human team, whose work transgresses the frontiers of gastronomy itself.
PEP GATELL. Creative director of La Fura dels Baus
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