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BATABAT
05.02.2008

“Parlar en colors” (“Speak in Colours”) has filmed in China and Burkina Faso
The film crew of the Batabat programme for Televisió de Catalunya, “Parlar en colors” (Speak in Colours”), directed by Lala Gomà, has travelled through some of the most remote destinations to film girls and boys from different cultures talking about art using the works of recognised artists as a springboard for discussion.

After visiting the Joncosa de Montmell school in Baix Penedès where a group of girls and boys talked about the painting Little Kadogo by Chéri Samba, the team visited Burkina Faso, where they travelled to a school located in the village of Bobo-Dioulasso about 300 kilometres from the capital. In China very low temperatures made filming especially hard. Nevertheless, the team managed to capture the creativity and participation of the girls and boys.

These are some of the girls’ and boys’ comments recorded by the film crew:

Joncosa de Montmell school
Pol (while commenting on the painting Little Kadogo by Chéri Samba):

“I don’t like it because he’s going to war and he’s still too little to die.”



Sílvia (while trying for a special colour and mixing different tones for painting):

“It’s becoming a colour that I’ve never seen before, never, never, never. It’s getting prettier and prettier and stranger and stranger, like something that no painter has ever been able to accomplish.”




School in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
A girl while drawing:

“When I draw, I can’t say whether I like it or not. It’s others who have to appreciate it. For example, a mask in itself does not proclaim its existence, but it is other people who must say if the mask is here or there.”




School in Beijing, China
At extremely low temperatures, the children begin their drawings with a red sun and a few clouds. “Why the sun?” Lala Gomà asks them,

“Well, because without light you can’t see anything!”