Menese
Video.
Duration: 43’34” min
Spanish Language
Original Format: Video HD
Projection format: DCP 2K Estereo
Production: Javier Codesal © 2008 España
Direction, camera and editing: Javier Codesal.
With the participation of: José Menese.
Production: Ignacio Collado.
Direct Sound: Diego Piscitelli.
Soun Postproduction: Pedro Saavedra.
Room plate: Adolfo López, Jesús Sánchez.
Acknowledgement: Encarnación Gil, Paco Vega, Pablo Llorca, Gloria Picazo.
Work produced with the support of Cajasol Obra Social for the Intervalo project.
The portrait of José Menese is organized as an alternating succession of spoken and sung sections. The cantaor narrates himself through the double register of cante and speech. There seem to be connections between these two things, as if the word that narrates experiences were making an exegesis of cante. But it can also be understood from the other direction, from the precise gestures of the artist that perhaps, and not only when he sings, creates the modes of his presentation.
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.