Student Films 1
wednesday june 6 | 10.00 hrs

Thirty Square Metres and a Balcony
This documentary deals with space issues in a specific area. Barceloneta is a historic neighbourhood by the seafront of Barcelona built as a result of an urban plan in 1753. This plan marked a strictly orthogonal grid still present today, and a simple housing type of two floors. In the neighbouring development, different processes of density population growth increased buildings in height and, at the same time, divided the original house in four, thus creating flats of 25 to 30m2, a type known as ‘Quarts de casa’, the quarter part of the original house. The filmmakers aim to study the way these building processes have affected the relations between the neighbourhood and the families living there.

Rosa Cerrarols, Saturnino Granero, Bàrbara Mas-Bagà, Adriana Salvat (Spain) | Spain | 2006 | 28 min | English subtitles

camera, sound, editor: Rosa Cerrarols, Saturnino Granero, Bàrbara Mas-Bagà, Adriana Salvat
producer: Tanios Films

contact: Rosa Cerrarols | Bàrbara Mas-Bagà
t: +34 627909478 | +34 651518650
e: Rosa.cerarols@uab.cat | barbarasayer@hotmail.com

This film is a team project, born after a postgraduate in Visual Anthropology at Universitat de Barcelona. Rosa Cerarols Ramírez is a cultural geographer from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Satur Granero Sánchez is a social anthropologist from Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona) interested in changing social relations in different neighbourhoods. Bàrbara Mas-Bagà Sayer is an anthropologist from Goldsmiths College. Her interests are focused on social perceptions of space. Adriana Salvat Torregrosa is an architect from ETSAB-UPC (Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona). Her interests are related to social and anthropological architecture and urbanism.