Soy fabulista
2017 · 4m · España
Directed by Jose Maria Tros de ilarduya
Genres: animation, family, fantasy
Tones: tender, theatrical, whimsical
As a child, Samaniego narrates in rhymed fable form a walk through the forest, meeting characters from personal stories and amusing friends from other tales. Each encounter turns playful and fun.
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A whimsical fable walk through the forest—sounds like every children's book ever made, except Tros de Ilarduya actually commits to the *form* itself, letting rhymed verse dictate pacing and absurdity in ways that feel genuinely subversive for a 4-minute animation.
The rhymed fable structure positions this firmly in a lineage of Spanish literary tradition (Samaniego himself), and the film's formal rigor—how the verse shapes the visual rhythm and character encounters—demonstrates a director fluent in animating language, not just illustrating it.
The decision to let the rhyme scheme *direct* the editing tempo is the whole film: each couplet lands as a visual beat, and you feel how that constraint forced Tros de Ilarduya into economy and specificity that makes four minutes feel complete.