Still from The Dance of the Brushes

CREDITS
Dancers Karen Rubio Lugo, Mariana Collado, Defne Enç Luján | Direction Charles Olsen | Direction of Photography Héctor Puche | Script Charles Olsen, Lilián Pallares | Production TwentyFourSeven | Choreographic Advice Concha Jareño | Make-up modelarte | Editing Charles Olsen, Lilián Pallares, Héctor Puche | Original Music ‘Ya No Importa’ by Pablo Rubén Maldonado

TRAILER

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Madrid: 1st Festival Flamenco de Cortometrajes, FFLAC Second Prize
Nîmes: Flamenco Festival
Jerez: 21º Festival de Jerez
Sevilla: XVI Bienal de Flamenco
Mont-de-Marsan: 27º Festival Arte Flamenco
Alcalá de Guadaíra: Ciclo Miradas del Flamenco
Rodalquilar: Festival Flamenco340
Maracaibo: III Bienal Internacional de Flamenco
Montreal: 1.er Festival Flamenco
Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brasilia: Festival Flamenco de Curtametragens 2012
Helsinki: Loikka Dance Film Festival
Coslada: Muestra de Cine y Flamenco
FNAC Sevilla, Barcelona, Málaga, Madrid, Murcia: Festival Flamenco de Cortometrajes 2011
Madrid: Etereal Festival
Cádiz: El ciclo Flamenco del Café Pay Pay

The Dance of the Brushes

Second prize in the I Flamenco Short Film Festival, Madrid, 2010


‘By far one of my favourites for its beauty and aesthetic audacity. The New Zealander Charles Olsen has created a rhythmic flamenco portrayal of Les demoiselles d’Avignon the masterpiece of Picasso. Superimposed highly coloured images, the movement of dresses, rustling eye-like fans … this short film is a real treat, an artistic reverie of freshness and incredible originality.’

MADE WITH SUPPORT FROM

  • Esbratina Servicios S.L., Departamento de Congresos, Colegio de Médicos de Madrid
  • Centro de Arte Flamenco y Danza Española, Amor de Dios
  • Centro de estética modelarte
  • TwentyFourSeven Producciones