Mallorca’s Son Roca tells its story in a 43-minute film
Young people from Son Roca, Palma, Mallorca, brought their own view of the neighbourhood to CineCiutat on Monday. Their 43-minute documentary, Última parada: Son Roca, was made over a year in a film-making workshop. It follows the lives and memories behind a place marked on the map as the end of a bus route.
The film had already been shown outdoors in Son Roca for neighbours and families who appear in it. It is the first edition of Istmo. Archivo Humano de un Barrio, run with Fundació Naüm Projecte Socioeducatiu and Quindrop Producciones Audiovisuales.
Twenty young people linked to Naüm took part in the wider project. Five worked together on the script and direction: Hugo Dantes, Lucas Dantes, Bethsabé Lara, Luna Reinoso and Iker Suárez. Quindrop provided technical and storytelling support.
The people behind the final stop
The documentary brings together past and present voices from the neighbourhood. Mateu Ramis, who drove EMT bus line 8 for years before retiring, appears alongside current driver Consuelo Medina.
María Francisca Simonet, Son Roca’s first social worker, recalls what the neighbourhood was like 46 years ago. The film also includes the grandmother of two participants, who shows her home and the plaque for José María Aguirre, a Son Roca resident who survived Nazi concentration camps.
Aaron, a barber and childhood friend of several of the young filmmakers, also features, along with mothers, educators and the escoleta. Archive footage supplied by the University of the Balearic Islands and IB3 is woven into the film.
Photographs head to La Misericòrdia
The work began with training in film techniques and oral storytelling, before moving into a participatory photography workshop and then the preparation of an exhibition. Sixteen young people signed the photographs, while Luna Reinoso took part in both workshops.
The photographs that led to the documentary can be seen at the Casal de Barri de Son Roca by prior arrangement. On 19 November, they will move to the Centre Cultural La Misericòrdia as an exhibition.
Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com