Flamenco On Fire opens the film festival with a sample of four documentaries and four round tables in Condestable

PAMPLONA, 25 Aug. (EUROPA PRESS) –

Civivox Condestable hosts this afternoon the first cinematographic screening of the film series that the Flamenco On Fire festival premieres in this edition. Four documentaries and four round tables on flamenco and cinema that will show how transcendental figures of this music have been treated in the seventh art. The sessions will take place from Thursday to Sunday, at 6:00 p.m., with free admission until full capacity is reached.

In its attempt to experience flamenco from all its vertices, this film exhibition will exhibit projects with which figures such as La Paquera, Terremoto de Jerez, Manolo Sanlúcar or Israel Fernández will be known, as a different way of approaching the public in first person stories and experiences that nurture the jondo genre. The sessions will conclude with debates open to the public, together with their protagonists.

This afternoon you can see ‘El Legacy’, a documentary directed by Juanma Suárez and Enrique Guzmán as a retrospective of the life and work of maestro Manolo Sanlúcar, one of the most outstanding Andalusian guitarists and composers of recent times. The work grows in the presence of its protagonist until it becomes a deep reflection on art, aesthetics and culture, as well as concepts and values ​​that orbit around all of it. The documentary also addresses artistic creation, passion, religion, spirituality and fear, the City Council has reported.

OTHER IMPORTANT FIGURES OF FLAMENCO

The international facet of flamenco will arrive on Friday with the help of ‘Por oriente sale el sol’, a documentary about the first trip to Japan by Paquera de Jerez, at 67 years old. This journey serves as a starting point for a journey through the life of the artist and to analyze the figure of the singer, an essential echo of flamenco, the copla and, ultimately, of Spanish music of the last century. From Jerez to Tokyo, where she triumphed at an advanced age, an exciting story of faculties, honesty and music prepared by Fernando González-Caballos and Yvan Schrenk in 2002 unravels.

On Saturday the protagonist will be the cantaor Terremoto de Jerez, with the screening of a documentary about him made by Álvaro Mayoral and Ignacio Rojas as a tribute to one of the most heartbreaking figures in the history of cante. The word, in him, took on another meaning and was combined with emotion to even break. Terremoto de Jerez is trance, viscerality and, through his life and work, that of a gypsy singer who was born in Andalusia in the 1930s and died in the early 1980s shortly after finishing a performance, the audience is able to delve into a breeding ground that makes art stained with rage possible, he added.

On Sunday the documentary ‘I sing because I have to live’ will be screened. Santiago Moga Perpén and Carlos Reverte delve into the career of the young Israel Fernández. Gypsy from Toledo, a contemporary of his time and with a meteoric career behind him, the cantaor, present in the Flamenco On Fire program, has achieved some milestones at his young age that have positioned him as a first-rate reference. He has recorded with Diego del Morao and El Guincho, in the international studios of Colors, and also solo with a piano to connect through albums like ‘Amor’, nominated for a Latin Grammy, with a new generation.

Flamenco On Fire opens the film festival with a sample of four documentaries and four round tables in Condestable