25rd FIFA's Archive |
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Creative Crossroads
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THE INVISIBLE POET: MIQUEL BAUÇÀ |
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MIQUEL BAUÇÀ, POETA INVISIBLE |
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Spain/2005/Betacam/colour, b&w/56 min/catalan english subtitles |
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This investigation of the life and work of Majorcan poet Miquel Bauçà (1940-2004) is structured as an non-alphabetical dictionary of images. Fictional fragments, archival excerpts and interviews are subject to a variety of visual effects-in sepia, black and white and colour. These sequences serve to illustrate key aspects of Bauçà's life: his relationship with his father and the death of his mother; his years at the seminary and his military service on the island of Cabrera; his first years in Barcelona, where he wrote some of his masterpieces; his attempts at normality-marrying, becoming a father, and ultimately separating; his return to Majorca, where he would live in a caravan; and his later years, with his compulsive writing of vast book-dictionaries and his total invisibility in the heart of Barcelona. A number of his poems and texts are here dramatically re-enacted, including Una bella història, Les mirsines, Carrer Marsala, El vellard, El canvi and Els somnis. The connecting thread is a character played by Pep Tosar, who is researching the life and work of Miquel Bauçà, but who also becomes Bauçà himself.
Biography
Born in Majorca in 1953, Agustí Villaronga received a Master's degree in art history from the University of Barcelona (1975). He has written and directed several feature films and documentaries. He has also been involved in numerous films as an actor, designer and artistic director.
Filmography
Tras el Cristal (In a Glass Cage, 1985); El niño de la luna (Moonchild, 1998); Al Andalus (1992); Le passager clandestin (1995); 99.9 (1997); El Mar (1999); Aro Tolbukhin (2002). |  |
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Director
Agustí Villaronga
Screenplay
Jordi Coca
Miquel Obiols
Agustí Villaronga
Cinematography
Xavier Gil
Sound
Natxo Ortuzar
Javier Clara
Aritz Sanjurjo
Editing
Carles Romeu
Music
Toni Martí
Participation
Glòria Rimbau
Concepción Quilez
Andreu Manresa
Maria Bauçà
Pep Clusa
Bartomeu Fiol
Amor Estadella
Lluís Solà
Bernat Puigtobella
Jordi Coca
Joaquim Horta
Jordi Maluquer
María Antònia Oliver
Arnau Pons
Biel Mesquida
Miquel Obiols
Cast
Pep Tosar
Manuel Bronchud
Pepa Charro
Daniel Fuster
Adrian Gómez
Joan Martí Gonzáles Bordas
Rafael Lladó
Catina Penyafort
Miquel Pujol
Producers
Albert Sagalés
Jordi Ambrós
Production
Diagonal Televisió/Televisió de Catalunya
Distribution
Televisió de Catalunya |
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