Karmenstein

Karmenstein is a different approach to the myth of Carmen Amaya, the greatest gypsy artist of all times, through the eyes of her stepmother and close friend, Vicenta Bejarano. A story of broken photos, resistance, memory and diversity among courageous women. Karmenstein is an audiovisual collage on racial stereotypes and private narratives developed by Jerónimo de los Santos, Emilia Peña and Ernesto Rosa in collaboration with Factoría Cultural, La Digitalizadora de la Memoria Colectiva, La Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla and the family of Vicenta Bejarano García.

Jero de los Santos
 

Jero de los Santos is an audiovisual creator from Seville, Spain. With a degree in Communication from the University of Seville, he studied Stage Direction at the Andalusian Centre for Theatre and Cultural Management at the Public School of Cultural Training of Andalusia. He has made small-, medium- and large-format fiction pieces, as well as abstract collages, and has participated in festivals and exhibitions inside and outside the country. He has taught, among others, on the master's degree programme in Scenography at Central Saint Martins and for Factoría Cultural (Polígono Sur, Seville), where he curated the exhibition "Mahala thaj Kher" in 2024. He works around his gypsy and queer identities.