Salidas is a fictional dance film that tells the story of Giralda, an undertaker who accompanies deceased human beings into their afterlife. Interpreted through Spanish flamenco dance and music and set at an old East German ship canal lift, the film creates an associative fusion between Northern and Southern Europe, movement and silence, farewells and eternity.
Anna Castillo
Salidas is a fictional dance film that tells the story of Giralda, an undertaker who accompanies deceased human beings into their afterlife. Interpreted through Spanish flamenco dance and music and set at an old East German ship canal lift, the film creates an associative fusion between Northern and Southern Europe, movement and silence, farewells and eternity.
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