Flamenco (1995 film) Utrera, José Menese, Enrique Morente, José Mercé, Farruco y Farruquito, Ketama, Manzanita, Maria Pagès and many others at the old Seville train station. "Flamenco" was issued on DVD by New Yorker Video in December 2003, in Spanish with English subtitles. The lyrics of the songs are translated in the subtitles (the only "dialog" in the film). Flamenco (1995 film) Flamenco is a 1995 Spanish documentary film directed by Carlos Saura with camerawork by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro. The film is entirely musical and dancing vignettes, composed and photographed on a sound stage. "Flamenco" is a documentary that includes performances from some
Flamenco guitar and flamenco guitar technique is known as "toque". Flamenco players tend to play the guitar between the sound hole and the bridge, but as closely as possible to the bridge, to produce a harsher, rasping sound quality. Unlike classical "tirando", where the strings are pulled parallel to the soundboard, in flamenco "apoyando" strings are struck towards the soundboard in such way that the striking finger is caught and supported by the next string, hence the name apoyando (from Spanish "apoyar" meaning "to support"). At times, this style of playing causes the vibrating string to gently touch the frets along its