The Internacional Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam welcomes the two-time Goya Award winner, Isaki Lacuesta who comes back with his latest work; FLAMENCO SKETCHES a captivating documentary produced by Lastor Media (10,000 KM, FREEDOM) and La Termita Films (BETWEEN TWO WATERS).
The Films celebrates a genre whose resilience has kept it vibrantly alive, tracing its connections with history, politics and the arts across three centuries and rather than offering a conventional history, the director builds the film as something closer to flamenco itself: stories begin, mutate, collide and disappear; images, music and ideas summon themselves intuitively.
The film jumps from flamenco’s first appearances in the mid-19th century to the arrival of trains, clocks and standardized time; from Thomas Edison’s early moving images of Spanish dancer Carmencita to the relationship between flamenco and the artistic avant-garde; from Vicente Escudero and Man Ray to Francis Picabia, Joan Miró and Marcel Duchamp. The project has been years in the making. Speaking to Variety in 2024, Lacuesta described it as “a kind of ‘One Thousand and One Nights,’ a story that explains tales, tales of flamenco.”
«A freewheeling journey throught the history of Flamenco» VARIETY. https://variety.com/2026/film/global/isaki-lacuesta-flamenco-sketches-latido-san-sebastian-1236870389
SYNOPSIS
The subtitle says it all: “Stories, tientos, myths, and sketches of flamenco.” Inspired by the essays of artist and researcher Pedro G. Romero and drawing on an extraordinary audiovisual archive, this creative documentary traces flamenco from its origins to the present day, exploring its surprising connections with history, culture and everyday life. Along the way, it uncovers remarkable images, from Leni Riefenstahl dancing bulerías dressed as a gypsy to Edison’s footage of the legendary dancer Carmencita.
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