Mallorca 1983. Signs in the sand

Juan A. Forés, “Pinxo”, from MallorcaNochentas, and Cesc Mulet, from La Perifèrica Produccions, sign a tape focused on the explosion of freedom and creativity that shook Mallorca.

The shadows, the grays, the fear… And suddenly, the 80s predict the colorful change that ends any suffocation. The yearning for freedom and the unbridled creativity of a generation allowed, at the beginning of this decade, a cultural movement to be created in various parts of the Spanish geography that would fill bars, create schools and color everything what used to be black and white. La Movida germinated in Madrid, but broke the barrier of insularity to also establish itself in Mallorca, where in 1983 a true artistic revolution began.

Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the first Palma City Council Pop Rock Contest, a key moment in this phenomenon, local and national protagonists remember what the Nueva Ola meant to future generations on the island.

Mallorca 1983. Signs in the Sand is a documentary that focuses on the explosion of freedom and creativity, the cultural and musical revolution that shook the island. With the outbreak of La Movida, everything changed in Spain in the 1980s. Mallorca 1983 deals with the cultural and musical revolution on the island through the eyes of the protagonists of those years.

The desire for freedom and the unbridled creativity of a generation led to the creation of a cultural movement in different parts of Spain in the early 1980s that would fill bars, create a school and colour everything that had been black and white until then.

La Movida germinated in Madrid, but broke the barrier of insularity to establish itself in Mallorca, where, taking the date of the first pop-rock contest in the summer of 1983, a true artistic revolution began that gave birth to artists and musicians of the stature of Furnish Time a Peor Imposible, Zincpiritione, La Granja or La Búsqueda… With Max, Pere Joan, Tatum… Rafel Juan, Juan Segura or a Miquel Barceló that becomes universal.

Miguel Ríos, Ana Curra, Jesús Ordovás, Luis Auserón and Servando Carballar are some of the artists who passed through the island and remember those times with their anecdotes.