An Andalucian Journey opens with archival photos tracing a history of flamenco-its official history. True to form, Jana Bokova immediately counters with reality, in an old man's colorful invitation to "Triana, where there is life, grace and fire." This two-part film travels from Seville to Cadiz to explore flamenco as a gypsy art form, one that continues to be passed down in extended families, or "dynasties." Most of the artists interviewed are not professionals; rather, they are field workers, basket weavers, who have perfected flamenco with all the skill and pride of professionals. That is what being part of a flamenco dynasty is about. That is what "grace" is about. But the powerful tensions in the music and movements of flamenco also are quite intimate, individual. "I think flamenco could have come from a cry," the singer Chocolate muses. Bokova's camera is frequently still, with life passing, or performing, before it. In Andalucian Journey she also offers still-life portraits of these proud families whose pictures will otherwise never find their way into the archives.