Miguel Ángel Blanca
2021Magaluf Ghost Town
Miguel Ángel Blanca, Miguel Ángel Blanca
At the height of the summer tourist season, the Spanish beach town Magaluf turns into a hellscape of the low-cost travel industry. For eight weeks every year, over one million mostly British vacationers ride an alcohol-soaked tide of public urination, fisticuffs and ambulance sirens for recreation. Instead of assembling a clip-reel of "balconing," when drunk idiots jump into hotel pools from their balconies, filmmaker Miguel Ángel Blanca crafts a far deeper and atmospheric look at a place where visitors and locals alike are driven by pleasure. Long-time resident Maria has little time left, so she takes in a seasonal lodger who listens to her relive her glory days. An enterprising real estate agent peddles an extravagant development, while a young gay man drifts without any plans beyond robbing a tourist for kicks. Part ghost story, part foreboding parable, this is a stylish and vivid impression of people and a place dreaming of escape. Myrocia Watamaniuk (Hot Docs)
Magaluf Ghost Town
Quiero lo eterno
Miguel Ángel Blanca
The gang advances through the darkness of an abandoned city. While the world asks for help, they only seem troubled by destroying the past and burning the roots. They dream of being the primal generation and not belonging to anything. They want to be the new art, to find eternity and finally to disappear. Teenagers, lo-fi science fiction, nihilism, and to cross to the other side.
I Want the Eternal
Corre Brilla Luz Luz
Miguel Ángel Blanca
In this short film, M.A. Blanca, together with the co-director Jordi Díaz Fernández, continues to explore the visual style of Quiero Lo Eterno, and also partially retakes the reflection on the impact of the human being in the environment through technology, solitude, death... and taxidermy.
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