// Director and writer

Sebastián C.SantistebanRestless cinema for the end of times.

Guateque / Bogotá / Sydney / Amsterdam / New York / Auckland / Medellín / Barcelona

Manifesto

Rumbo a Peor Films / Barcelona

“Humanity has now become a spectacle unto itself. Its self-alienation has reached a degree that lets it experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”

Walter BenjaminSo what now? →

// projects in development

in development

MAMI

PERRO’s conspiracy delusions, published on the deep web, start becoming true in the streets of Barcelona.

feature film, spain + colombia, in development

// in post-production

in post-production

La vida
era para otros

A man wanders Barcelona’s subway at midnight. His thoughts flirt with the platform edge, but he has a date.

fiction, between lynch and noé, short film

More films

Filmography

Experimental feature / In post-production

Artificial Ruins

When the film you’re making starts making you.

2025 / 27 min
Documentary about a documentary

La Alegre Levedad de la Colombianidad

Four film students in Bogotá explore the contradictions of happiness.

2025 / 3 min
Experimental, fiction

Ωmenahje

Cinematic icons collide in the fake medieval alleyways of Barcelona.

2024 / 12 min
Experimental

El Barnaverso

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

2024 / 11 min
Sci-fi, horror

Bel

AI algorithms manipulate humans to manufacture viral content.

2024 / 28 min
Documentary

Imaginarios

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

// a feature of the same name

feature film in development

La vida
era para otros

A former literature professor abandons his life and descends into the Barcelona subway, where he finds a world of false beauty and perfection. Even so, he wants to be part of it.

in development, treatment

// writing

Books

REC 02:34

El Maluverso

short stories, existentialist tales for reggaeton fans

REC 07:31

MADLL

novel, new colombian literature

REC 01:12

De Rumba en la 51

short stories, vol. 2.0

On the set of Ruinas Artificiales

// collaborate

Let’s make a different cinema.

We’re looking for production companies, sales agents, distributors, funds and fellow filmmakers. Press kits and screeners on request.

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// 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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