José Luis Picón I Málaga, Feb 28 (EFE).- David Guerrero Guevara has been known as “the child painter of Málaga” since he disappeared in 1987 at the age of 13 without a trace, and the documentary “La exposición” will present at the Malaga Festival out of competition, now addresses his vocation and his artistic precocity.
Its director, David Moya Algaba, explains in an interview with EFE that he has always kept this story “very present” as he first studied EGB at the same school in Malaga as David and his brothers, and his education had “caught his attention” artistic.
Since he began to dedicate himself to audiovisuals, the idea of making a documentary about David had been maturing for years, “but not about the case, but with an approach to it”.
When he found out in 2018 that an exhibition was going to open in Malaga with some of his paintings and drawings, he saw that it was the opportunity to meet them and get closer to his family, according to the director, who did not want to shoot another documentary about the police investigation. of the disappearance and the main clues.
Disappearance in “context”
“You search Google and all the information comes out, some that is well verified and also a lot of sensationalism. With that, I thought that I was not going to tell anything new, and also it was not what I wanted, nor did I start an investigation on my own to see what I found out, ”she explains.
On the contrary, he wanted to get closer “to see what David” drew and painted, the child painter from Malaga, despite the fact that at some point in the documentary he also puts the disappearance “in context” and alludes to the main milestones of the police investigation.
Upon meeting the relatives, who “sometimes have not been too happy with the treatment of the case in some media”, Moya Algaba discovered “that David’s artistic vocation was shared and also practiced by his brothers, Raúl and Jorge” .
Both, like their mother, Antonia, “are normal people to whom this happened, but they lead an absolutely normal life and away from celebrity or any connotation that has to do with it, because it is not a story to take advantage of for their own benefit. and they are very careful about this.”
The common thread throughout the documentary is the restoration of a drawing of David by his brother Raúl, who recounts memories while recovering the color of that work on his end-of-study trip to Portugal.
Reflection on the artist
“In the media, David is considered the artist of the family, and his brothers consider him to be an artist in the making. Raúl does what he can and says that the most artist in the family is Jorge, but Jorge says no… The documentary reflects on the condition of an artist”, points out Moya Algaba.
The director has counted on the two brothers throughout the process, whom he has “consulted about certain approaches” and has wanted to be “very careful with how they felt represented.”
Now, Raúl and Jorge have been able to see the documentary and are satisfied with the final result for having been able to say “what they wanted”, after many years in which the case was treated in some media “always pointing to the same place, the from pain”.
Moya Algaba is “very excited” by the fact that the documentary can be seen for the first time at the Malaga Spanish Film Festival, which “is its natural premiere site, because of the story it is and because it is a film that It has been done here”, and now he aspires to “see as much as possible”. EFE
