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Saturday, March 19, 2016 - 20:00
Universitatea Națională de Muzică -
Sunday, March 20, 2016 - 19:00
Written by:
Xacio Baño
Cinematography:
Xacio Baño
Sound:
Xoán Escudero
Producer:
Xacio Baño, María Zaragoza
Romanian Premiere
To Be and to Come Back is a short video portrait in which the author gives us a sneak peak of his grandparents, aligning scenes of work, critical discussions about his future and fragments of a supposed rehearsal for his 'fiction' film. The editing clearly states his wish to show us through metafiction and metaphor his relationship with his grandparents by explaining what his profession of a filmmaker is about. His grandmother doesn’t seem so well-convinced that he will succeed; therefore, the film turns to a be a funny and harshly selfportrait of the director, in which we hear the sulky voice of his grandmother, we see personal fragments and images of their house and we sense a need to look back and forth for our own good. (Claudia Cojocariu, BIEFF)
(present in Bucharest during the festival)
Director:
Xacio Baño (1983, Xove, Spain) went into film, after leaving aside the engineering degree, driven by his desire of telling stories. And as he has been demonstrating through his films, there are many roads leading to these stories. The way to tell them is a playground in which Baño has not hesitated to experience – with no restrictions – boldly. This is precisely what has made the short films he writes, directed and produced travel around the world stopping at festivals like Locarno, Mar de Plata, Busan, Telluride and Clermont-Ferrand, where he has been awarded, as well as in Las Palmas, Málaga, Alcine and the Swiss Shnit Film Festival.
Website:
Contact:
xaciorb[at]gmail[dot]com
Festivals, awards:
- Canal + Award and Jury Special Mention - Clermont-Ferrand Int. Film Festival, LAB Competition
- Jury Special Mention, Audience Award - L'Alternativa - Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona
- Jury Special Mention and ASECAN Award - Muestra Cinematográfica del Atlántico - ALCANCES
- Galiza Award, AGAG Award Best Script – Curtocircuito, Spain
- Best Short Film Real image - Festival de Cans, Spain
- Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland
- European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck
- MiradasDoc - Festival Internacional de Cine Documental de Guía de Isora
Director's statement:
I’m unable to remember a film’s synopsis, the names of film directors and writers, or the book titles. It is an odd legacy that reaches out not to remember the anecdotes and experiences that happened to me over all these years. It can be frustrating. Maybe that is the reason why I chose cinema: to create my memories. The first impulse, the first urge, was to film a video-portrait of my grandparents in order to have them close when they are no longer here. At the exact moment I started filming them, I discovered that there was something more important to tell. It was not so much about them as it was about me, about discovering what cinema gives me and what do I need to return. Little by little the camera was turning around. The eyes that looked were not mine, but theirs, towards me, towards my generation. (Xacio Baño)
I’m unable to remember a film’s synopsis, the names of film directors and writers, or the book titles. It is an odd legacy that reaches out not to remember the anecdotes and experiences that happened to me over all these years. It can be frustrating. Maybe that is the reason why I chose cinema: to create my memories. The first impulse, the first urge, was to film a video-portrait of my grandparents in order to have them close when they are no longer here. At the exact moment I started filming them, I discovered that there was something more important to tell. It was not so much about them as it was about me, about discovering what cinema gives me and what do I need to return. Little by little the camera was turning around. The eyes that looked were not mine, but theirs, towards me, towards my generation. (Xacio Baño)