The Spanish filmmaker Lois Patiño in the Lab Jury 2015
Filmmaker, video artist, scriptwriter, producer
Lois Patiño in 2014 on the stage of the Maison de la culture in Clermont-Ferrand
Lois Patiño was born in Vigo (Spain) in 1983. He combined his Psychology studies in the Complutense University of Madrid with cinema studies at TAI School. He followed his cinema education at NYFA, in New York and with the Master in Documentary Film at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He has developed courses of videocreation in the UdK of Berlin, and in different ateliers with artist and filmmakers such as Joan Jonas, Donald Kuspit, Pedro Costa, Víctor Erice, José Luis Guerín or Daniel Canogar.
“Recordando los Rostros de la Muerte” (trailer) by lois patiño
His videos and videoinstalations have been shown in art centres such as Centro Cultura San Martín (Buenos Aires), Casa Encendida (Madrid), CCCB (Barcelona), MARCO (Vigo), Solar Galeria (Portugal)… His films have been screened at international festivals as Locarno, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Ann Arbour, Cinema du Rèel, Rome IFF, Viennale, Jhilava, Media City, Punto de Vista… or in Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, which took place in Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Reina Sofía Museum (Madrid) and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin).
“Light-Bodies” (videointallation from “El Cuerpo Vacio”, 2010) by lois patiño
With his work Montaña en la Sombra (Mountain in Shadow) won prizes at Oberhausen IFF (Germany), Clermont-Ferrand (France), Bucharest Experimental FF. His feature film Costa da Morte (Coast of Death) also get prizes in festivals such as Jeonju IFF (South Corea), FICUNAM (México) Festival dei Popoli (Italy), Valdivia IFF (Chile) or Seville European Film Festival (Spain).
Costa da Morte. (teaser 2) by lois patiño
