To Be and to Come Back

Emilio has an accident. Now he sees life in a different way.

Echo's voice was stolen and she was sentenced to repeat what everyone else said. Trapped, she decides to take shelter in a cave and to distance herself from human touch.

Film travels through Las Hurdes and the Residencia de Estudiantes to build the portrait of Ian Gibson, author of the biographies of Buñuel, Dalí and Lorca. The journey ends in Granada, where, after a 50-year search, Gibson is closer than ever to finding Lorca's remains as a symbol of reconciliation in a country that is reluctant to make peace with its past.

A film in which an account by Baño’s grandmother opens the door to an associative, heterodox exploration of historical memory.

Carme lives in a mountain village in Galicia with her sick mother and her father Ramón, with whom she hardly speaks. Working in a bakery, she feels the urge to escape from this oppressive atmosphere, but circumstances always seem to stop her. But during the “Rapa das Bestas” weekend – a celebration of the age-old struggle between man and horse – Carme’s older brother, Luís, comes home with his wife María...

The life of a person can be as easy and straightforward as his recipe for sponge cake.

Interlude. Space between frames. During the last year I was accompanying Anacos on his tour of festivals. When finishing and inventory: a few videos without a clear purpose and several photos of windows. About the time between work and work. About the search for the idea. On the fear that it is not the ideal. I hope that the piece serves to remove that fear.

Nina Simone knew how to sing.

Short film by Xacio Baño for the NIMBOS Project, a series of films inspired by the poems of the book Nimbos by Xosé María Díaz Castro. Second version made in the spring of 2015 from recorded material and published the previous year.

A hazy, intimate journey through Santiago de Compostela, told through memories, correspondences and the quiet poetry of travel.

Memory, the fight against oblivion and the search for identity are some of the themes that nourish Non te vexo. The film traces the traces of the past with the help of archival images, traversed by several voices. One Mississippi, two Mississippis, three Mississippis...