Santisteban
Santisteban
Filmmaker & Writer
Filmmaker & Writer

Restless cinema for the end of times.

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// manifesto

"Humanity has now becomea spectacle unto itself.Its self-alienation has reacheda degree that lets itexperience its own destructionas an aesthetic pleasureof the first order."

Walter BenjaminSo what now? →

rumbo a peor films · 2026 · frame 0248

Artificial
Ruins

When the film you're making starts making you.

feature film · 2026 · Nouvelle Vague in the age of AI · on the festival circuit

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Ωmenahje00:11:39:21

Ωmenahje

Cinematic icons collide in the fake medieval alleyways of Barcelona.

experimental · fiction · 3 min

El Barnaverso00:07:55:02

El Barnaverso

Ads and tutorials promote the beauty of living in an idyllic Barcelona.

experimental · spain · 12 min

Bel00:02:18:14

Bel

AI algorithms manipulate humans to manufacture viral content.

sci-fi · horror · short

Imaginarios00:09:03:17

Imaginarios

Recovered film archives from 2013 revive the dreams of students at a school in the Colombian mountains.

documentary · colombia · 28 min

// projects in development

in development

La vida
era para otros

Barcelona. 3AM. Metro. The last night of a man who no longer recognizes the world.

fiction · wong kar-wai meets fellini · short film

// projects in development

in development

MAMI

PERRO writes conspiracies that millions read on the deep web. And they begin to happen in Barcelona, to the letter.

feature film · spain + colombia · in development

// writing

Books

El MaluversoREC 02:34

El Maluverso

short stories · existentialist tales for reggaeton fans

 MADLLREC 07:31

MADLL

novel · new colombian literature

 De Rumba en la 51REC 01:12

De Rumba en la 51

short stories · vol. 2.0
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Sebastián C. Santisteban

// about

It was the other arts that taught me how to make films.

Colombian filmmaker and writer, born in Guateque, Boyacá, and based in Barcelona. My work moves between fiction cinema, literary narrative and the essay, in constant dialogue with Lacanian psychoanalysis, contemporary philosophy and the question of what artificial intelligence is doing to human experience. I run Rumbo a Peor Films.

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