Farruquito: A Flamenco Dynasty

The first woman to appear in front of an Edison motion picture camera and possibly the first woman to appear in a motion picture within the United States. In the film, Carmencita is recorded going through a routine she had been performing at Koster & Bial's in New York since February 1890.

Runtime

1m

Director

William K.L. Dickson, William Heise

Cast

Carmencita

The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final r...

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Carlos Saura

Cast

La Paquera de Jerez, Paco de Lucía, Fernanda de Utrera

A look at the history and traditions of flamenco music and dance.

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Carlos Saura

Cast

Paco de Lucía, Niña Pastori

The documentary is a summary of Paco de Lucía's career, his art, his human category and his life, from his first artistic steps to his last professional steps, which have been marked by flamenco. Numerous testimonies and interviews carried out between 2010 and 2014 are exposed.

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Francisco Sánchez Varela

Cast

Paco de Lucía

This film tells a story about two young talented artists coming from different ethnic and family backgrounds whose paths cross because of their unusual talent and passion for flamenco music. Amós is twelve and grows up in Salamanca. A rising star recognized by Paco de Lucía, Amós has been playing guitar and composing since he was three...

Runtime

1h 6m