With the thirty-three minute A MAL GAM A he made in 1976, Zulueta brings the lyrical film into the territory of mystico-psychedelia. The cinema as drug, as vehicle for raptureâ??as will later be seen in Arrebatoâ??is a theme of this most autobiographical of Zulueta's experimental films (which could also be seen as a documentary of an agoraphobic mode of artistic production), the protagonist is played by the filmmaker himself ("Jim Selfâ? is the trans-linguistic homophone that appears in the credits) and shot mostly in the family villa in San Sebastián. - Senses of Cinema