Bocamina
Film.
Duration: 21’47” min
Spanish Language
Original Formatl: Kodak 35mm Film from a Betacam Digital Telecine
Projection format: DCP 2K Estereo
Production: Javier Codesal © 1999 España
Screenplay, direction and editing: Javier Codesal.
Production: Julia Sieiro, Concha Díaz, Javier Castro.
Cinematographer: Javier Serrano.
Direct Sound: Miguel Polo.
Camera Assistant: Juan Masides.
Direct sound: Óscar Segovia.
Atrezzo: Ditas de Blas.
Lighting technicians: José Antonio Fernández, Alberto Sánchez.
Production Assistant: Juan Antonio Cegarra.
Production meritorious: Valeria Rodríguez.
Production secretaries: Elena Figaredo, Tina Olivares.
Room sound effects: Manuel Corrales.
Sound post production: Oscar Barros.
Mixing: Alfonso Raposo, Jaime Fernández.
With the participation of: Curro Piñana, Andrés Salom, Ángel Cegarra (Conejo II), Joaquín Sánchez (el Palmesano), Antonio Sánchez, José Fernández, Juan Antonio Mozas, Santiago Guillén, Paco Salinas, José Luis Cegarra, Ángeles Garrido, Ana Asensio, Alfonso Madrid, Emilio Alcaraz, Lucía Alcaraz, Cristina Ruiz, Raúl Sánchez, José Manuel Pérez, Alfonso Molina, Antonio de la Asunción, Antonio Gines, Ángel Cotorruelo, Alberto Sánchez, María Emilia Santiago, Ginés Garrido, María Muñoz, María Trinidad Martínez, Sandra Cros, Estefanía Silvente, Ana Cristina Cegarra, Alba María Lozano.
Funded with the help of the Ministry of Education and Culture, La Unión City Council, Cajamurcia and Canal+ (Spain).
Bocamina investigates the traces of mining and mining singing in the surroundings of La Unión. The mining ruins and the popular voices of troubadours and singers serve to press something permanent, which does not abandon contemporary man despite his urban condition.
Special Mention of the Jury, 1st International Film and Environmental Video Festival, Goiás, Brazil, 1999. Special Mention of the Jury, 27th Huesca Film Festival, 1999. 1st Prize of the Community of Madrid, 29th Alcalá de Henares Film Festival , 1999. Photography Award, 29th Alcalá de Henares Film Festival, 1999. Sound Award, 29th Alcalá de Henares Film Festival, 1999. Silver Mikeldi for Documentary, Bilbao International Film Festival, 1999.
Director Bio
Javier Codesal (Sabiñánigo, Huesca, 1958) has a degree in Visual and Hearing Image Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid.
Considered one of the pioneers of video art in Spain, his interest in the body and music stand out in his career – present in productions as different as’ Centauro ‘,’ Sábado legionario ‘,’ Los remotos paises de la pena ‘or the exhibition’ Ponte el cuerpo’-, the approach to themes such as pain, death or illness – for example, through the series ‘Dias de Sida’ – and a series of portraits that includes ‘La habitación de rada’ (on the Balkan War), ‘Mario y Manuel’, ‘Portrait of Francisco del Río’ or ‘Mayte’. Two of his other artistic facets are regularly reflected in his works and installations: poetry and drawing.