Look Again. Jan 19 – 29, 2012 Park City, Utah

How does a white boy with Alabama roots become a flamenco guitarist in Andalusian boots, and what happens behind the scenes along the way? GYPSY DAVY uncoils a mesmerizing story of many hearts wound around one man. Traveling across continents and through a labyrinth of hidden meanings, filmmaker Rachel Leah Jones documents her beguiling journey toward her elusive father. As she retraces his path, she pioneers a new one for herself.

Free of sentimentality or self-indulgence, Jones's wry, self-reflective narration provides a compass for navigating one family’s knotted web of mysteries and betrayals. As the revelations mount, her editing ingeniously interlocks time sequences, characters, and archival material into a resounding and life-affirming whole. Her father’s yearning, hypnotic guitar score serves as the connective tissue throughout the film, immersing us in his primary and most enduring love affair: his music. What once pulled a family apart now binds a film together, and perhaps a tangled collection of souls into kin.

- C.L.

Rachel Leah Jones is a director, producer, and editor born in Berkeley, California, and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel. Her credits include 500 Dunam on the Moon (2002), Ashkenaz (2007), Targeted Citizen (2010), and GYPSY DAVY (2011). Over the years, she has worked on numerous socially and politically engaged documentaries in Israel and Palestine, and for various progressive media outlets, such as the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem and Democracy Now! in New York.