Xacio Baño (Xove, Lugo, 1983) se acercó al cine, dejando de lado la carrera de ingeniería, con el impulso de contar historias. Y como ha ido demostrando a través de su filmografía, muchos son los caminos que conducen a esas historias. La forma de contarlas es un campo de juegos en el que Baño no ha vacilado en experimentar a placer con una osadía que es, precisamente, la que ha hecho que sus cortometrajes hayan dado la vuelta el mundo haciendo escala en festivales como Locarno, Mar de Plata, Busan, Telluride y Clermont-Ferrand, donde ha sido premiado, al igual que en Las Palmas, Málaga, Alcine y el Shnit Film Festival suizo. Los distintos puntos de vista humanos, y la manera de percibir la realidad a partir de ellos es uno de los elementos que guía el cine de Baño, que ha ido mutando desde ficciones con trazas de historia personal y realidad documentada –como el caso de Estereoscopía y Anacos– hasta terrenos híbridos de ficción y no ficción, como es el caso de la pieza que le ha consolidado a nivel internacional, Ser e voltar. Es así como en Xacio Baño se da la paradoja de un cine que empieza intentando ponerse en lugar del otro, para terminar alcanzando un modo de ver genuinamente personal.
Xacio Baño (Xove, Lugo, Spain 1983) left behind a career in engineering and went into filmmaking due to his desire to tell stories. As he has been demonstrating with his films, there are many roads which lead to these stories. Baño has experimented boldly with different ways of telling them- almost like on a playground. It is a fact, no doubt, which has contributed to the success of his short films around the world, winning him awards at festivals such as Locarno, Mar de Plata, Busan, Telluride and Clermont-Ferrand, as well as in Las Palmas, Málaga, Alcine and the Swiss Shnit Film Festival. Baño’s films reflect the many different points of view we have as humans, as well as how we perceive reality, causing them to take on various forms, from fiction with a touch of personal history and documented reality –as is the case of Estereoscopía and Anacos– to hybrid fiction and nonfiction, in Ser e voltar– a film that established him internationally. Through Xacio Baño’s films we witness a paradox unfold as a film that started out trying to take on another’s point of view, ends up with one that is so genuinely personal.
Source: http://www.s8cinema.com/portal/programacion/sinais/xacio-bano/
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