Flamenco: Rhythm, Roots & Rebellion
From intimate family performances to bold experiments in contemporary music and dance, these films explore flamenco as an art form shaped by history, community, and creative reinvention. Meet the performers keeping its traditions alive, discover the Roma communities and Andalusian neighborhoods at its roots, and follow flamenco as it travels across borders and inspires new generations of artists. Together, these films reveal a vibrant tradition in which music, movement, identity, and memory converge.
The Flamenco: Rhythm, Roots & Rebellion collection includes the following titles:
9 SevillesAn unorthodox walk through new flamenco by way of nine portraits of figure,s from dance, singing, poetry and activism.
Bajarí: Gypsy BarcelonaBajarí offers an intimate look at how flamenco’s legacy is kept alive within Barcelona’s tight-knit Gypsy community. Flamenco is passed on within the family in the Gypsy community that bore Carmen Amaya, the greatest flamenco dancer of all time.
Fernanda and BernardaA poetic portrait of flamenco icons Fernanda and Bernarda, tracing their journey from Utrera to the world through artistry, memory, and silence.
Over the Waves: A Story of Flamenco in the U.S.For over a hundred years, the art of flamenco has been crossing the ocean into distant places. Many have fallen in love with the deep song, the cry, the rhythm. Over the Waves explores the tradition of flamenco art in the US: its origins, protagonists, and its identity as a nomadic and hybrid art form.
Sacromonte. The Wise of the TribeSacromonte aims to recover the memory of the most important flamenco community in the world. Through the survivors of a lost and golden age, elder flamenco men and women, we dive in their past in search of their roots and memories.
Terremoto, the DocumentaryThe incredible life of Terremoto de Jerez. His style is the sublimation of cante jondo and his biography is the history of flamenco itself.
TranceA journey to the heart of the flamenco music of Jorge Pardo, an essential artist to understand the evolution of contemporary flamenco.
Triana, Pure and PureThis joyful film memorializes the end of an indomitable lineage in a unique flamenco soiree, transformed into a tribute to a disappeared world.
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