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The Devil’s Moves
Since repetition is the essence of festive rites, each year, the people of Cetina participate in their fiestas – the series of celebrations in honor of their patron saint – with renewed excitement and hoping to repeat the same thrills. Their ritual dances combine religiosity with Baroque artifice, sanctity with laughter. The dance—pronounced “dan-thai”—and the contradanza are the day and night of the local fiestas in Cetina (Zaragoza), a village of some 700 inhabitants that has managed to preserve these two unique dances. In The Devil’s Moves The memories and testimonies of the danzantes and contradanceros – the dancers from various different generations who have participated in these two dances – offer an inside look at this celebration.
Domingo Moreno
Born in 1965 in Zaragoza, Spain, Domingo Moreno is a screenwriter, director and producer. Moreno began making films at the University of Zaragoza. He has obtained diplomas in film directing from Catalonia’s Center for Film Studies (CECC,), and from the New York Film Academy (NYFA). Moreno has studied Filmmaking at the University of Valladolid and completed a postgraduate course in screenwriting at the EICTV (San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba).
Filmography
2015 – The Devil’s Moves
2014 – Dance of the Giants
2013 – Herders of the Mist
2006 – 2009 – Transhumance in Spain (doc. series)