Magaluf Ghost Town
ABOUT
Magaluf, Mallorca, a peaceful seaside town that turns into one of the most heavily overcrowded tourist destinations in summer. How do the locals survive in this low-cost tourist paradise?
Miguel Angel Blanca works in the field of tragicom-edy, double lives and everyday obscurity. His firstfeature length filmDesprés de la Generació Feliç(2014) is a found footage home movie piece aboutthe virtues of losing your memory and reconstructing the past from fiction. It is followed by Un llocon caure mort(2014), a documentary about the possibility of managing family, the middle class and punk music, and La Extranjera(2015), a documentary-science fiction hybrid that reflects on the tourist invasions in the city of Barcelona. His latest projects are the feature length film Quiero lo Eterno(2017) and the short film Corre Brilla Luz Luz(2018), two fables about adolescent nihilism and end-of-the-world fantasy. He is currently releasingMagaluf Ghost Town(2021) a cross between horror and humorous local color in one of the most touristy towns in Mallorca that reflects on the tourist areas in decline and their representation in the collective imaginary.