His name is Santiago Lorenzo. The stars lined up so that a good day of 1964 was born in Portugalete, Biscay, Spain, Europe, Earth. the universe. First he looked, then watched, then filmed and now writes. In all those stages he lived and in none did what the actors do: act. Give him a Milan eraser and scissors and he will create a world for you. Although a long time ago with a keyboard it does the same and better. This pre-technological artist of slow pulsations (perhaps because of his big heart) lives on horseback (or bus of several horses) between Madrid and a workshop that he has chosen in a village of Segovia that could serve to exemplify the recurring expression "away from the mundane noise" .
It was not always like that. He studied image and script at the Complutense University and stage direction at the RESAD of the capital of the kingdom. It was always clear that in the face of real problems, only imaginary solutions work, so in that year constellation that was 1992 created the production company El Lápiz de la Factoría, with which he directed short films such as Bru, It's my business or the applauded Crafts. Because in addition to that, the artisan artist Lorenzo always liked to build impossible models worked with his hands: a dresser with drawers that open on both sides, doors where only the Thinnest Man in the World could pass and theaters where the Madelman are the protagonists. If he did not enjoy the gift of writing, he could have used it in any old trade: serene, because it is quiet for a while, or head of a railway station, because portable trains like a tambourine more than a cheerful man. In 1995, he produced Caracol, col, col, who was able to calmly step on the red carpet of the Goya Awards, which won in the category for Best Animated Short. Four years later he insisted on releasing Mom is silly, the story of a somewhat flawed child from Palencia, but at the same time very lucid, harassed at school (the film was one of the first to address the issue of bullying) and with parents which, in spite of him, causes him a tremendous shame. The film will go down in history as one of the bittersweet comedy cult films and could serve as a foundational myth of post-humor that seeks icy and uncomfortable laughter. With her he was nominated, to his surprise, to the FIPRESCI Prize at the London Film Festival. In 2001 he opened, together with Mer García Navas, Lana S.A., a workshop dedicated to the design of scenography and decorations with which they made both plasticine dolls for the announcement of the euro and the cathedral that appears in one of the deliveries of Torrente. In 2007 he released A good day anyone has it, where he raised a story of a person to explain a collective problem: the inability, affective and real estate, to find a place in the world (or a flat in the city, for that matter) ).
Tired of the weavings of the world of cinema, he decided to give his ideas to this of literature, so in 2010 he published the novel Los million (Mondo Brutto), one of the books of the year with a comic hook and a rather tragic blow : one of GRAPO has the primitive lottery; You cannot collect the prize because it lacks an ID. Since then, he has written Los Huerfanitos, he has delighted with apses of cathedrals and has continued to attack the vices of society in the only possible way: with laughter, the appeal of men who enjoy a presumption-free intelligence. He has also continued to speak in a low voice, throwing rockets and smoking a cigarette every hour on the hour with short shots. In short, he has done many things, but his greatest fear continues to fall into the estuary from the top of the suspension bridge of Portugalete, a World Heritage Site since 2006.
