Claudio Caldini
Biography
Claudio Caldini was born in Buenos Aires in 1952 and has been making super 8 experimental films since 1970. In 1971 he began his studies at the Centro Experimental del Instituto Nacional de Cinematografía (Buenos Aires) and attended film seminars with Alberto Fischerman (1977), Werner Nekes (1980) and Werner Schroeter (1983) at the Goethe-Institut (Buenos Aires). He studied Modern and Audioperceptive Dance with Rolf Gelewski in São Salvador da Bahía and São Paulo (Brazil), in 1978 and 1982, respectively. Caldini worked as a lighting designer and operator for theater and rock concerts and as a programmer of electronic instruments, in association with Jorge Haro (1989–90). He was the film and video curator at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (Argentina) from 1998 to 2004, and a member of the Jury of the 2003 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany). In 2005, he was an Artist in Residence at the Glenfiddich Distillery in Dufftown (Scotland); in 2015 was a Visiting Artist at LIFT Liaison of Independent Film Makers of Toronto (Canada). He is the recipient of the following awards: the Premio Leonardo from the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (1997); Beca de la Fundación Antorchas (1998); the Gran Premio at the III Festival Franco-Latinoamericano de Video Arte for his work Heliografía (1994); and the Primer Premio at the Primera Semana del Cine Experimental, Madrid, Spain, 1991, for his work El devenir de las piedras (1991).
Personal Details
Movies (50)
La Tierra Plana
Director (Directing)
2024
ʎɔuǝɹɐdsuɐɹʇ
Music (Sound)
2024
Herbaria
2022
Señales de humo
Director (Directing)
2022
PROMISE
Director (Directing)
2022
El jardín vislumbrado
Director (Directing)
2022
A (possible) trip around the world in super 8
2021
Heliografía (remix)
Director (Directing)
2021
Poilean
Director (Directing)
2020
Calendario de lluvias
Director (Directing)
2019
Rosoideae
Director (Directing)
2018
A R P
Director (Directing)
2016
A New Day
Director (Directing)
2016
trío 1990
Director (Directing)
2016
Rolf Gelewski, spiritual dancer
Director (Directing)
2016
Deadline
Director (Directing)
2015
Untitled S/T
Director (Directing)
2015
Intervened Events
Director (Directing)
2014
May Avenue
Director (Directing)
2012
Chromatic Phantoms
Director (Directing)
2012
El Mito de Narciso
2011
Hachazos
2011
H R Z N T
Director (Directing)
2011
4:3
Director (Directing)
2010
Lux Taal
Music (Sound)
2009
The Republic
Director (Directing)
2008
S/T
Director (Directing)
2007
Bajo tierra
2007
Prisma
Director (Directing)
2005
Heliografía
Director (Directing)
1993
Consequence
Director (Directing)
1992
Simulacro
Director (Directing)
1990
The Evolution of the Stones
Director (Directing)
1988
I'll make you pay for this
Director (Directing)
1986
Templo Cerrado
Director (Directing)
1982
The Circular Scene
Director (Directing)
1982
Through the Ruins
Director (Directing)
1982
Vadi-Samvadi
Director (Directing)
1981
Gamelan
Director (Directing)
1981
A Dwarf in the Garden
Director (Directing)
1981
Offering
Director (Directing)
1978
Cuarteto
Director (Directing)
1978
Testamento y vida interior
1977
Sensation '77: Mimicry
Cinematography (Crew)
1977
Aspiraciones
Director (Directing)
1976
¡¡¡¡Guauch!!!!
Camera Operator (Camera)
1976
Ventana
Director (Directing)
1975
Film Gaudí
Director (Directing)
1975
Baltazar
Director (Directing)
1975
5 Aspects 5
Director (Directing)
1971