A documentary on Radio Pica, a Barcelona radio station that has been operating since 1981, was closed by the Generalitat in 1987 and was back on the air waves in 1990. Barcelona independent radio - a quarter of a century powering communication that is truly alternative, not subordinate to commercial ends.

Between 2000 and 2003, PROCIVESA, the property development company that is restructuring various areas in the old part of the city, expropriated various housing blocks in Barcelona?s La Ribera neighbourhood at a low price. And then demolished them. Local residents named the new empty space that remained where their houses used to be the "Forat de la Vergonya" (the Hole of Shame), as a way of denouncing a situation that they considered degrading for a number of reasons: the public authorities? abandonment of an area that was already problematic, the interminable construction work, the loss of rights of people relocated to new apartments, etc.

Urban space in the city of Barcelona is strongly influenced by the phenomenon of tourism. Four people talk about their impressions through their experience of systematised tourism in the city and the daily life of the people who live in it. “Abandoned City” is a 26 minute documentary that that takes its title from the phrase of one of its characters, who talks about the irony of an overcrowded city affected by abandonment. A local representation of a global phenomenon. This documentary is the result of the group work of the first year of the master of visual anthropology UB-Tanios films.

A city built out of fragments found on the net. Mirages hinting at a world of ephemeral beauty and a forgotten people.

Annotations for a Work in Progress... In November 1994 I traveled from New York to Barcelona hoping to retain support film in what remained of the original Chinatown. One could say that at the time of my arrival in the neighborhood, this started to disappear. Currently it is being demolished and transformed following a massive urban redevelopment plan. Decline and future life, memory and oblivion: entropy as history.

An old building in Barcelona's historic Barrio Chino is the setting for this documentary. Real estate “mobbing” and the urban rehabilitation of the old city are the narrative thread, the economic machines that drive real estate speculation. They take over the neighbourhood, burying its history and memory.

The sun does not always shine in Barcelona, the “best shop in the world” according to the slogan of a City Council campaign. The thousands of tourists who visit Barcelona every month boost the city's economy, but their social and human impact is often overlooked. The precarious nature of jobs in tourism, real estate pressure from the hotels, and the types of problems that crop up when a city turns into a kind of theme park in an attempt to seduce outsiders. The classic problems of global capitalism, reflected in one of the country's major industries... “BCN Thematic Park” talks about all this... about Barcelona, a city-advertisement that is turning into the newest theme park on the international market.