Flamenco Workshop
Realizador Alfonso Camacho
Países Spain
Duração 69 min
Sinopse
Seville (Spain), 2009. Between February through May, the last months in the life of the self-managed occupied social center "Hat factory" before it was emptied and later abandoned, a camera tries to document a weekly flamenco singing workshop. That process becomes a frustrated search, a series of tests with every variation of flamenco singing that is taught and learned: farrucas, soleares, seguiriyas, tarantos, bulerías, granaínas, alegrías and tientos-tangos. The result is a film as incomplete and truncated as the workshop and the physical space it depicts –both of them are projects still in construction, unfinished, and frustrated. It’s also a film that tries to keep the same connection with flamenco the characters have: it makes an unstylish portrait, shredding its solemnity, thus suggesting a vindication of its current validity and an extension of its possible ranges.
Seville (Spain), 2009. Between February through May, the last months in the life of the self-managed occupied social center "Hat factory" before it was emptied and later abandoned, a camera tries to document a weekly flamenco singing workshop. That process becomes a frustrated search, a series of tests with every variation of flamenco singing that is taught and learned: farrucas, soleares, seguiriyas, tarantos, bulerías, granaínas, alegrías and tientos-tangos. The result is a film as incomplete and truncated as the workshop and the physical space it depicts –both of them are projects still in construction, unfinished, and frustrated. It’s also a film that tries to keep the same connection with flamenco the characters have: it makes an unstylish portrait, shredding its solemnity, thus suggesting a vindication of its current validity and an extension of its possible ranges.