Jaleos - Flamenco SketchesJaleos - Flamenco Sketches

Isaki Lacuesta explores flamenco’s ties to history, avant-garde art and modernity through archival footage and voice-over.

In Flamenco Sketches, director Isaki Lacuesta explores flamenco as a form connected to historical and artistic developments. The film works in a freely associative way, bringing together archival material and voice-over. The narrators recount the history of flamenco and move between wonder and speculation. The footage ranges from one of Edison's earliest Kinetoscope films, with dancer Carmencita, to an ironic clip of Hillary Clinton. The film also draws lines between flamenco, modernity, machines and avant-garde art, and names such as Arp, Miró, Chaplin, Saura and Dalí appear. Eroticism and censorship are part of the material, as are politics via the Spanish Civil War and colonialism.

Story written by Evenitto from the film catalogue and the cinemas' notes