Ramón Ayala. Barcelona, 1976 In 1980 almost dies intoxicated by a butane stove. He was saved by his dobermann dog. Happy childhood devouring comic books and skateboarding in a marine town on Tarragona. In 1991 he began to take photos in almost always black and white. Played in garage bands in early nineties. In 1994 studies Journalism, Philosophy and Literature in Pamplona. In 1998 one settles in Barcelona where it begins to study in the ESCAC film school that leaves after few months partly motivated disillusion and financial issues that are solved when it finds an incredible job as film critic. Begins to frequent festivals like Venice, Gijón, Sundance, New York, Sitges. Towards the year 2000 he begins to collaborate in the magazines Scope, Punto H, Neo2 and Rockdelux. Colaborates as writer in books about Larry Clark, Jia Zhang-ke, Barbet Schroeder and Terrence Davies. In 2001 co-organizes “Posible” a film festival about west and central european filmmakers. The festival shows for the first time in Spain the work of Béla Tarr, Artur Aristakisian or Sharunas Bartas. In 2006 records a folk álbum called “El éxodo” under a moniker: casadelava. In 2007 he works as producer in film school. He begins to shoot any kind of image: video essays, film portraits, music videos for bands as El Guincho or Le Pianc. In 2008 shoots in super 8 “suzieju BEAT!” his first short film with Ray and Charles Eames and Hou Hsiao-Hsien in mind and performs as actor in the music video “Suena brillante” by Luis Cerveró for Joe Crepúsculo. Plans a and execute a serie of sculptures "Dinosaur Act". He suspects that a Chinese guy has had the same idea. He lives in Barcelona where he is developing a documentary about a girl and her clothes, more short pieces in super 8 and an increassing Renaissance obssesion.