A fora (Outside)— un film de Marc Capdevilla /

"A fora(Outside)", est un texte du poète Albert Balasch. Il y a quelques années, Balasch a commencé une série de collaborations avec le peintre Tia Zanoguera. C’est de ces collaborations que l’idée d’une adaptation comique du texte a surgi. Zanoguera a donc créé une longue série de peintures et dessins qui donnèrent naissance au projet. Finalement, le projet n’arriva pas à terme, mais le réalisateur et éditeur Marc Capdevila eut l’idée d’animer les pages et toiles qui avaient été produites. De cette manière fût construit un court-métrage combinant poésie, peinture et animation 2D et qui a pour intention de maintenir une texture originale des toiles, l’expression des coups de pinceau et la vitalité de la gamme de couleurs.

A fora(Outside), is a text by the poet Albert Balasch. A few years ago, Balasch began a series of collaborations with the painter Tià Zanoguera. It was from this collaboration that the idea of adapting the text to comic form arose. Zanoguera then created a long series of paintings and drawings that gave birth to the project. In the end, the project did not come to fruition, but the filmmaker and editor Marc Capdevila thought about the possibility of animating the pages and paintings that had been produced. And in this way they constructed a short-film combining poetry, painting and 2D animation.
The challenge in doing the project was to bring the paintings to life and create a stimulating rather than a narrative universe. How can a painting be brought to life? How can you give life to an individual line or to that essence of a picture that cannot be reproduced? And how can you go beyond a literal illustration of the text?
Zanoguera and Capdevila took photographs of the painting and worked on them with animation software. Then Balasch reduced the text to a script in search of ellipsis.
The result of all this process is a short-film that aims to maintain the texture of the original paintings, the expressivity of the brush strokes and the vitality of the range of colours.
In short, the result is A fora(Outside), a brief journey.

French premiere

First Prize of the 6th edition of the Foro de Animación Contemporánea del Festival de México-ANIMASIVO 2013.
First Prize of the 1th Concurso Internacional DS VIDEOART 2013 (Madrid, Spain).
Public Prize of the KINO 2013, organized by NunartBCN (Barcelona, Catalonia).
Official selection for the international competition of the ZEBRA 2012(Berlin, Germany), and nomination for the category “Best Debut”. 
Finalist of LA PAROLA IMAGINATA 2013 (Trevigliopoesia Festival, Italy).