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Videomusiking Al Ándalus (cut 2024)

The film tells the story of three groups of Sufi music, Mediterranean fusion and rap, who accept the challenge of the ethnographer-filmmaker of producing each one a videoclip. Not a conventional one, but an auto-reflexive, ethnographically based music video: an audiovisual product which is the result of several collaborative and creative sessions, and whose production is an occasion for exploring the relation the bands have with the place where they live and with the echoes that its Andalusí past has left. Trying to translate their musical worlds into moving images, Al Firdaus, Darash and Pablo López deal with the reflections of Al Ándalus in contemporary Andalusia.

  • Dario Ranocchiari
    Director
  • Fondazione Giorgio Cini
    Production
  • Universidad de Granada
    Production
  • Dario Ranocchiari
    Writer
  • Dario Ranocchiari
    Camera
  • Esperanza Jiménez Sáez
    Camera
  • Ali Keeler
    Key Cast
  • Pablo López
    Key Cast
  • Juana Larreta
    Key Cast
  • Sra. Preformer
    Key Cast
  • Antonio Manuel
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Videomusicando Al Ándalus
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Feature, Music Video
  • Genres:
    documentary, music film, ethnographic film, research film
  • Runtime:
    48 minutes 41 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 1, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    7,500 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Filmoteca de Andalucía
    Granada
    Spain
    March 31, 2022
    World Premiere
  • 18th EASA Biennial Conference
    Barcelona
    Spain
    July 23, 2024
Director Biography - Dario Ranocchiari

Filmmaker and university professor of social anthropology at Universidad de Granada (Spain), he has been trained anthropology and ethnomusicology in Italy, Spain and Portugal. He conducted ethnographic research in Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Cape Verde and Spain. As a filmmaker, he directed 3 documentary films and many visual documentation pieces.

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Director Statement

I am a visual ethnographer devoted to a transdisciplinary approach to cultural research. I'm interested in experimenting with participatory methodologies that facilitate encounters between expert and grassroots knowledges, research and creative processes, fiction and non-fiction.