Land of the tiny supermen Print

Elio Quiroga was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands). He started as video art and video installation artist. His first experimental videos are now into the Spanish Collection of the Museo Reina Sofía about Video Creation and Video Art. Quiroga directed the controversial feature film Fotos which was awarded Best Script and the Jury’s Special Award at the Sitges International Film Festival in 1997, where it was enthusiastically praised by Quentin Tarantino. He has directed and produced also the short animated film “Home Delivery”, from a short tale by Stephen King and presented by Guillermo del Toro. “No-Do”, a horror movie sold to 40 territories was his third film as director, after the sci-fi “La Hora Fria” which sold very well internationally too (35 territories). As screenwriter, he is cowriter of “Ausentes”, a horror film directed by Daniel Calparsoro. His animated short film “Me llamo María” was selected for the Short List in the Oscars 2011. His fourth feature film as director was the documentary “The Mystery of the King of Kinema”, about legendary silent film star Max Linder. Quiroga has directed many commercials in the Canary Islands, Spain, and he is also a well known director of architectural and promotional video in his homeland. He has published the novels “Idyll”, “El Despertar”, “Los Códices del Apocalipsis” and “Los que sueñan” which has won the Minotauro Novel Award 2015. Quiroga works in painting, videoart and sculpture. He uses digital technologies to perform interventions over images using traditional painting techniques. He also works in Copy Art, Mail Art and Web Art.