TRAMUNTANA 360º is a VR documentary of a cultural landscape
Tramuntana 360º is an immersive film experience that blends environmental urgency with the deep rhythms of landscape and culture. Set in the Tramuntana mountain range in Mallorca, a UNESCO World Heritage site celebrated for its striking natural beauty and rich cultural legacy, the film uses 360° storytelling to explore the evolving relationship between humans and nature, from ancient civilisations to modern tourism and issues arising from climate change.
The Tramuntana range runs 90km along Mallorca’s northwest coast, where nature and culture have coexisted for millennia. Its dry-stone terraces (pedra en sec), ancient irrigation systems, and layered history, shaped by Talayots, Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, Catalans, and modern tourists, tell the story of a land continually transformed by human hands.
For centuries, communities have worked with stones to cultivate and sustain the landscape: constructing terraces, channelling water, planting groves and orchards, and building snow huts and lime kilns. But as traditional ways of life have been abandoned in favour of work in tourism, this human care has faded. Terraces crumble, water systems dry, erosion spreads, pine trees invade, and goats roam wild. These transformations remind us that the balance of this living landscape relies on a deep, continuous relationship between people and place.
The 360º film is divided into six chapters, each representing a different elevation and ecosystem in the Tramuntana range, where unique local economies developed over the centuries.
· Ice: harvesting, packing, and transporting mountain ice from snow huts
· Oak: producing charcoal and lime in stone kilns and firing circles
· Olive: cultivating olives on terraces and pressing them into oil
· Orange: irrigating citrus groves with stone channels and retaining walls
· Grape: terracing slopes to grow vines and produce wine
· Fish: using stone huts and slipways to support local fishing.
Each chapter is anchored by the poetic motif of a melting ice-stone. As it journeys from mountaintop to sea, the ice stone gradually dissolves within the dry-stone structures and terraced landscapes of the Tramuntana. The stone symbolises the region’s cultural heritage and the careful shaping of water and land that supported each ecosystem. Its disappearance reflects both the impact of climate change and the abandonment of these sustaining practices.
Audiences will follow the stone's journey through various environments, witnessing traditional practices such as olive harvesting and fishing, while listening to the voices of local residents, scientists, and activists. The film will not only showcase ecological challenges—such as erosion, biodiversity loss, tourism pressures, and invasive species—but also highlight inspiring ecological projects. It will serve as an archive and a call to environmental stewardship.
Tramuntana 360º seeks to preserve the memory and meaning of this living landscape, provoke reflection, and inspire collective responsibility for its future; a poetic meditation, an environmental statement, and a tribute to the resilience of both nature and human communities.
Supported by: Save The Med Foundation, Museu Balear de Ciències Naturals (MUCBO)
Produced by: Amilux Film in collaboration with artist Trevor Lloyd Morgan © 2025
