Bombolles

HD / color / 3 min. / Spain / 2015 Written, Directed & Produced by Álvaro Gago. Cinematographer: Kike Rico. Editor: Álvaro Gago. Country: Spain Language of the original version: Catalan. Shooting Format: Canon 5D Mark II with a Canon 200-400mm lens. Locations: Barcelona. Synopsis On a sunny Sunday afternoon, a group of kids play with bubbles in the park. Unha tarde de domingo soleada, un grupo de nenos e nenas xogan no parque con pompas de auga. Director's Statement BOMBOLLES is a proyect that was born within the framework of the workshop that Abbas Kiarostami gave in the city of Barcelona, February 2015. A group of filmmakers had the honour to get to know him and share ten intense days with him in which we brainstormed, rehearsed, shot and edited our ideas. A theme was given to us at the beginning of the workshop. The theme was THE SEA. From the very beginning, the sea transported me to the summer days when I would play with the waves for hours and hours, to that happiness and freedom that I would always experience when surrounded by water. Walking around Cuitadella Park, I saw a group of kids playing with soap bubbles. The look on their faces brought me back to those summer days: the parallelism was established and then a question flourished, ¿Would I be able to capture that joy? BOMBOLLES é un proxecto que nace no marco do taller que impartiu Abbas Kiarostami na cidade de Barcelona no mes de febreiro do ano 2015. Un grupo de cineastas tivemos a sorte de coñecer e compartir con él dez días intensos de exposición de ideas, ensaios, rodaxe e edición. O tema central en torno ao cal todas as ideas tiñan que xerminar era O MAR. O mar levoume nun primeiro instante ao xogo, á ledicia que supón estar rodeado de auga. Foi un impulso que quedou aparcado ata que vin a varios nenos xogando con pompas de auga xigantes no parque da Ciutadella. Foron esas imaxes as que rescataron a intuición pasada, estableceron un paralelismo entre ambas situacións e formularon unha pregunta: ¿Sería quén de capturar esa ledicia que eu, como todos aqueles nenos bule-bules, experimentara anos atrás?