2023
Spanish filmmaker Lois Patiño undertook a writing and research residency near the Capelinhos volcano for his fiction film "ARIEL," which was shot in April 2023 on the islands of Faial and Pico. ARIEL is a feature film loosely inspired by Shakespeare's "The Tempest," where the director chose the islands of Faial and Pico as a natural setting and incorporated several local people as actors and extras. The film had its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2025, produced by Bando à Parte (Portugal), Filmika Galaika (Spain), and with local production by AvistaVulcão/Barca13.
PUBLIC ACTIVITY:
The artist also presented a film screening open to the public, showing two of his previous cinematic works, and led a conversation with the audience.
Lois Patiño (Vigo, Espanha, 1983) is a filmmaker and artist, the son of abstract painters Menchu Lamas and Antón Patiño. He began his film studies in Madrid at the TAI school, combining them with studies in psychology at the Complutense University. He continued his film studies at NYFA in New York and in Barcelona, where he completed a Master's degree in Creative Documentary at Pompeu Fabra University. He took video art courses at the Universität der Künst in Berlin and workshops with artists and filmmakers such as Joan Jonas, James Benning, Pedro Costa, and Víctor Erice.
His films have been screened at film festivals such as Cannes - Directors' Fortnight -, Berlinale, Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, New York, Ann Arbor, Viennale, IDFA, Cinema du Réel, Oberhausen, and Clermont-Ferrand.
Lois Patiño is part of a generation of Galician filmmakers called 'New Galician Cinema'.
