Maestros del duende

Halfway between choreography and combat, wrestling is an attractive spectacle for Madrid audiences. Its matches are a privileged place to explore contemporary society.

A documentary about pop culture and youth in Madrid, 1966.

The San Juan celebrations in Soria are an explosion of popular joy centered around bullfighting events. The film offers an anthropological portrait of the festival.

Initially a made-to-order documentary on Spain, the film becomes an open-ended work-in-the-making about the creative process. “Settling in the Spanish capital to make a documentary, Hanoun sketches out for us the different steps involved in making a film. The author turns his hesitations, his doubts and difficult working conditions into the constituents of his work”. (Raphaël Bassan)