El Cante Rasgueado, Descomposición/Choro
BoCA 2025

Niño de Elche, Pedro G. Romero

Mini-Docs Music, Thought

The mini-documentary “El Cante Rasgueado” and “Descomposición/Choro” follows the new creations by artists Niño de Elche & Pedro G. Romero presented during the 5th edition of the biennial.

After the artistic residency that traversed the line separating—or uniting—southern Portugal, Huelva, and Extremadura, there is a story surrounding this journey that recounts the sounds that Niño de Elche and Pedro G. Romero encountered, and from which they created the concert “El Cante Rasgueado” and the conference-performance “Descomposicíon/Choro,” presented in Lisbon and Madrid.

From an attempt at “de-folklorization” to the best-kept secrets of this cross-border landscape, the documentary about these two new creations brings together the testimony of two unmistakable artists and the team that accompanied them, and revisits a collective investigation that unfolded in two moments through which we crossed territories, histories, and communities.

By returning to the places, voices, and sounds that shaped this process, the film reveals how artistic creation is built from the encounter and contamination between practices, memories, and geographies, composing a sensitive portrait of an aesthetic in constant transformation. Between archive, landscape, and performance, this documentary follows the journey that turned sound into political and poetic material, affirming song as a space for resistance, sharing, and collective reinvention.

Subtitling
The films have subtitles in Portuguese, English and Spanish.
Interviews
Claudia Galhós, Rita Dias
Production
Rita Dias
Communication
Maria Barbosa de Carvalho
Image and sound
Miguel Canaverde, Thomas Baron-Cunha
Assembly
Thomas Baron-Cunha
Commission and production
BoCA Biennial of Contemporary Arts (Lisboa)
Audiovisual production
Waves of Youth
Award-winning documentary series under the Lisbon, Culture and Media Programme of Lisbon Culture/EGEAC