In the last few decades, Barcelona has stopped being a city for its inhabitants, to become a Brand: an "open business" metropolis , who's major interest is to privatize all common aspects of life in the city, through multinational investments.
** One city defined by big government corporate slogans and another woven by it's streets and people **
Street art, music and popular culture haven't escaped this corporate process. The local council, through it's "civil" statutes , forbids any spontaneous artistic expression in "it's" streets, seizing instruments and other artistic material.
We have made dozens of interviews with different artists, eighteen of which, were made in english, spanish, catalan, french, portuguese and bulgarian. We have directed a "participational observation" with the different collectives that shape it's prism. We have read the statutes, norms, citizens civil rights, edicts and official bulletins etc.. We also saw how it all effects it's citizens, it survivors, the average artist and the bigger figures that share their itinerant art between european and other cities.
On one side we are witnesses to the grand circus of the privatization of all aspects of public life, as if this were insufficient (witnessing the seizure and destruction of paintings, guitars, clarinets, accordions and even clown noses) we also are testimony to the animosity of certain agents towards the camera's eye and the changes that the system is trying to impose through retrograde legal restrictions that try to silence freedom of expression.
On different occasions they have tried to coerce us into turning off the camera, we have been I.D'd charged with disobedience and threatened with the possible seizing of our equipment, always under the guise of the supposed of "citizen's safety" act. They didn't manage to discourage us, on the contrary: our team did everything they possibly could to get the information out and help the collective of street artists to organize the struggle for the survival of their art.
This documentary seeks to draw public attention to this current social conflict to change it's reality: The "right to habitat" in a democratic system includes being able to practice and enjoy art in the street.
Who are we?
Who are we?
Ingrid de la Torre is a resident Spanish-Argentina social activist in Barcelona, daughter of the generation of silence, post-dictatorial and part of the generation of young people who were forced to migrate in 2001. She has developed art projects and social education in the Raval district with different organizations and entities. She has collaborated circumstantially, as Argentine journalist correspondent for the news paper "Tiempo Argentino" and now devotes her efforts to the creation of Zasca audiovisual productions for performing critical and independent content. Regarding the audiovisual context is formed in the centre of women Francesca Bonnemaison, making the documentary workshop creating Belkis Vega, that gave rise to the collective documentary "D-constructing. Part of Me" (2012) recently awarded in the documentary category of Latin American cinema festival "All Voices Against the Silence".
Fabian Barrero Colombian . Videographer, writer and animator. Formed in the INI program of the Ministry of Culture of Colombia. He has won a prize of animated short in 2001 UNAL Bogota and two awards for his writings in 2002 and 2005. 4 years of experience in Ávila TV and the Metropolitan School of Audiovisual Production mayor of Caracas project. A year as a Video composer for Fluenzlab. He has been part of various projects both fiction and documentary. Since 2012 he has participated in the city of Barcelona on various proposals with immigrant thematic. Auto-producing micro films with "Espai de l' Immigrant and Mount Zion". From 2013 he joins the project Zasca Productions as one of its founders, being creative and technically responsible for audiovisual part. He is also a fiction short film, digital and analogue 2D animator and stop-motion.
César Iglesias Belmonte Spain. Has studied assembly in CECC, founding partner of ASAKOFILMS, editor of the documentary "Bulubús: The Movie" producer of the webseries "The Adventures of Leonard Kat" and director of music videos for bands of Barcelona.
Narcisz Veronika Fazekas has studied cultural and visual anthropology at the University of Miskolc in Hungary, her native country. Her anthropological interests include the cultural and social aspects of migration, human ecological questions and auto-sufficiency initiations, and music as expression of identity and freedom. After doing some fieldwork in Ghymes, Romania and a scholarship in Portugal, she traveled to Scotland and in 2010 made Barcelona her new home city. Since living in Barcelona she has been participating in various artistic projects and currently working within the production team documentary "No Permit".
The team composing ZASCA productions, has extensive experience in social projects independent audiovisual component. Also, during the past two years, we have actively collaborated with conjunctural thematics and social collectives of short films in various categories. Besides during the past year we have decided to produce music videos for various new artists.
What will allocate your contributions?
The project requires support in its final stage of shooting and post production, (took about 18 months of working out), for which we estimates a forecast two months to finish the documentary. Also will assign a part, to the appeal of fines imposed to our team by the fact of filming the confiscation of instruments.
Timetable provided
If the funding goal is achieved, the work could be finished and ready for screening in September. The preview will be held at the Social Center "The Negreta"
The private concerts will take place during the second half of July and August and / or September, according to the arrangements of the patron and the availability of the artists.
Rewards
As for the rewards, given its nature (thanks and credits) will be displayed in the title of the documentary and delivered to our patrons in the same premiere, in the case of tangible or sent by post.
*In the case of private concerts the event will be agreed between the maecenases and the production. Private concerts at the maecenases home will be available in Barcelona and surroundings. The private concerts to attending maecenases will be held in the city centre of Barcelona and will be announced by the maecenases production. *
If we have raised more money than initially required to complete this project will be aimed at promoting awareness of the documentary, as well as conducting more creative and self-produced material.
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