Both parts of a two-part piece with English subtitles. Jana Bokova's film travels from Seville to Cadiz to explore flamenco as a gypsy art form, one that continues to be passed down in extended families, or "dynasties." Most of the artists interviewed are not professionals; rather, they are field workers, basket weavers, who have perfected flamenco with all the skill and pride of professionals. That is what being part of a flamenco dynasty is about. That is what "grace" is about. But the powerful tensions in the music and movements of flamenco also are quite intimate, individual. "I think flamenco could have come from a cry," the singer Chocolate muses. Bokova's camera is frequently still, with life passing, or performing, before it. In Andalucian Journey she also offers still-life portraits of these proud families whose pictures will otherwise never find their way into the archives.
(BERKELEY ART MUSEUM & PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE)
An Andalucian Journey: Gypsies and Flamenco.
The flamenco of southern Spain is more than music and much more than an exhilarating dance for the tourists. It's the soul of a culture, and its roots go back to the 15th century when gypsy travellers made their way via Asia and North Africa to Spain. Today the real flamenco is kept alive by the gypsy families of Andalucia. Through their private family rituals, baptisms, marriages and fiestas, the new generation of Andalucian gypsies learns flamenco from its elders, the great solo cantores and the most powerful and accomplished dancers of flamenco in the world. Today the families are no longer travellers - they are integrated, socially and economically, with the population. But they keep alive their traditions with pride, and in this film Arena travels to meet them and to see and hear the real flamenco.
(BBC)
Performers include Chocolate, Anica la Piriñaca, Fernanda de Utrera, Moraito, Farruco, Juanito Villar, Angelita Vargas & El Bien Casao.
Film cameraman David Feig. Film editor Yves Deschamps. Series editors Anthony Wall and Nigel Finch.
Produced and directed by Jana Bokova
The introduction to Part 1 (about 90 seconds) which is in English is missing from this copy. It can be seen here on a copy that lacks English subtitles for the Spanish: [ Ссылка ]

UN VIAJE ANDALUZ GITANOS Y FLAMENCO (1988)
El flamenco del sur.
España es más que música y mucho más que un baile estimulante para los turistas. Es el alma de una cultura, y sus raíces se remontan al siglo XV cuando los viajeros gitanos se abrieron paso a través de Asia y el norte de África hasta España. Hoy el flamenco real lo mantienen vivo las familias gitanas de Andalucía. A través de sus rituales familiares privados, bautizos, matrimonios y fiestas, la nueva generación de gitanos andaluces aprende el flamenco de sus mayores, los grandes cantores solistas y los bailaores de flamenco más poderosos y consumados del mundo. Hoy las familias ya no son viajeros, están integradas social y económicamente con la población. Pero mantienen vivas sus tradiciones con orgullo, y en esta película Arena viaja para conocerlos y ver y escuchar el flamenco real.

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