Resumen de La historia como representación y el espejo Apócrifo: (A propósito de Andalucía, un siglo de fascinación de Basilio Martín Patino)
Seven “false documentaries” make up the series Andalucía, un siglo de fascinación, by Basilio M. Patino for Canal Sur. They deal with the bloody events at Casas Viejas (El grito del sur), the history of the Andalusian ballad (Ojos verdes), the phalansterian social-humanist utopia (Paraísos), a Japanese museum of flamenco music in Tokyo and the mythic singer Silverio Franconetti (Desde lo más hondo I y II), the filming of a television program in homage of Adalusian poetry (El jardín de los poetas), and the myth of Carmen (Carmen y la libertad).
It is a fascinating game of what could have been, but was not, of the factually impossible of imagined memory, of fantastic fiction created out of real facts. Dreamed images are presented as historical documents, as cultural products inherited from reality and used as instruments of an imaginary fiction. In sum, it is the never-ending play of cultural mirages and their transmission, of the artifices “the real” dons to become a verisimilar part of social memory.
