B-side: Music In Barcelona (2008)

The music scene in one of Spain's great cities is explored in this documentary from filmmaker Eva Vila. Barcelona is home to a wide variety of gifted musicians, but not many of them are famous or weal... read more thy, and in the film B-Side, Vila profiles some of the lesser known figures in the city's creative community who make music for its own sake without concern for the whims of the mass audience. Shot over the course of a year, B-Side visits artists involved in jazz, dance music, rock and roll and Contemporary Spanish music, following them as they work up new material in rehearsal, take their sounds to the stage, and concern themselves with the details of their lives outside of their art. If these artists live on the B-side of public recognition, their devotion to their craft and the passion of their performances is second to none. B-Side was an official selection at the 2010 Rotterdam International Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi