Preview of the documentary “Visca el Puig de Sant Pere”

As part of the Puig de Sant Pere neighborhood festival, where the museum is located, and as a result of a collaboration agreement between the Association of Local Residents in Puig de Sant Pere and Cinètica Produccions, we are previewing the documentary Visca el Puig de Sant Pere, directed by Luis Ortas.

On July 1st at 7:00 PM at Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani de Palma, the unfinished cut (70 minutes) of this new audiovisual project, which combines memory, urban critique, and existential crisis, will be presented for the first time. A piece that reconstructs seven centuries of history in the Puig de Sant Pere neighborhood, with a special focus on recent decades: neighborhood struggles, daily resistance, and ways of life that have been marginalized by a city increasingly geared toward tourists.

In a time of individualistic hyperconnectivity, selfies, noise, and screens, when the author retreats into himself until he is erased, filmmaker Luis Ortas proposes something more than a documentary: a collective action, a neighborhood exorcism, an artistic and political proposal on the meaning of creating—and living—in community. The result is an exercise that breaks with the logic of the author as a central figure and opens up to the direct intervention of the audience: residents, attendees, critics, and the general public.

After the screening, a space for direct participation (oral and written) will be opened for the audience to contribute ideas, critiques, and proposals that will transform the project. This dynamic will not be symbolic: contributions will be recognized as collective co-authorship and will be rewarded—in a playful and provocative tone—with PuigCoins, a virtual cryptocurrency created by the Puig de Sant Pere Association of Local Residents (AAVV), designed to reclaim a new image of wealth: that of the community.

A snack will be offered to all attendees in the museum’s central courtyard so we can continue the informal discussion after viewing the audiovisual presentation.

With the support of Es Baluard Museu and in collaboration with the neighborhood’s association, this presentation aims to be more than a screening: a neighborhood party, an act of resistance, an artistic provocation. Because memory is not an image frozen in time: it is a living, changing body, constructed by many.