Naxo Fiol

A longtime lover of horror, fantasy, trash, underground, weirdo and "popcorn movies" in general, Naxo Fiol (Barcelona, 1973), in the absence of a camera and actors, started in 1987 making two video compilations of the best and most bloody moments of some classic horror films, FILMGORE and VIDEO VIOLENCE. But it wasn't until 1988 that he achive to shoot his first proper short films in single-8 and super 8 formats, copying the kind of cinema he liked. Then switched to video but continued to make the same kind of short films until 1992, with MECANICA, his most ambitious film to date that won an award from Spanish television (Best Director). Here begins a stage more focused on experimentation -highlighting the short film EPIDEMIA, shot in single-8 format in 1993- that stops at the end of the 90's. It is then when Fiol opts for a more casual, anti-academic and crude type of cinema that converges in 2001 with the creation of FERNANDO PROJECT, the first amateur/SOV movie edited in Spain in professional DVD format (by Manga Films). Since then he has remained faithful to this style, although after a few years he begins to combine it with his old interest in the experimental (working in 8 mm, 16 mm and even 35 mm formats). Within this context, the most notable result is found in A RITMO DE JESS (2013), a chronicle of the crazy shooting of the last film of cult-filmmaker Jesús -Jess- Franco. Currently, Naxo Fiol continues to play with cameras of all kinds and to produce small, personal, unique and unpretentious films that know hardly any exhibition. At the same time, he has developed a long career as a writer, especially in the field of fanzines (his personal fanzine SUBURBIO has been active since 1993). Is the author of COMO NO HACER UN CORTOMETRAJE and co-author of MALAS PERO DIVERTIDAS, the first book published in Spain entirely dedicated to trash movies.