Claudio Caldini Trailers
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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).
Most Popular Claudio Caldini Trailers
Total trailers found: 53
28 February 2019
"Rain is a thing that surely happens in the past" Borges
27 October 2014
The omnibus feature SUCESOS INTERVENIDOS consists of shorts by a who’s who of Argentine documentary and experimental-film giants, including Edgardo Cozarinsky and Gustavo Fontán but also Claudio Caldini, Andrés Di Tella and Gabriela Golder.
01 January 2011
Experimental animation. The projectors make up a seemingly elastic horizon, filmed from different perspectives from a viewpoint.
01 January 1986
Film of "El Clú del Claun", directed by Claudio Caldini, which opened the show "I'll make you pay for this.
05 November 2022
Chinese ink is the powder or soot that is collected from the fumes produced by the combustion of resinous materials, called carbon black, dissolved in water.
03 October 1981
The camera as the operator's satellite describes a circular path around it, making visible the forces that hold it in orbit.
01 May 1970
Fiction based on texts by Baudelaire, Sade, Lovecraft and Lautréamont.
12 April 2016
Video: Caldini, 2016.
21 April 2021
A brief documentary focused on the history of experimental Super 8mm filmmaking. Prominent figures of the "s8" boom of the 1970s discuss their work and their first encounters with the medium.
24 April 2016
Documentary about Tomás Sinovcic, filmmaker murdered by the Argentinean military dictatorship in 1976.
01 January 1977
A woman hides in the forest, attempting to become one with the landscape.
20 September 1971
«This film was made by for a contest of the Local Council of Buenos Aires» - Claudio Caldini
03 March 2015
Made as a Visiting Artist at Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT).
01 January 1966
"indian ink on 16mm film" -CC
03 October 1981
Aspiraciones is the beginning of a series in which Vadi-Samvadi is the second film. The grammar of Indian music suggests a micro-interval in a cinematic space-time.
10 November 2016
The pass of time in nature accompanied by music.
28 March 2010
Experimental short film.
21 February 2021
Digital edition of the original 1993 video-tape. Dedicated to Dr. Albert Hofmann and his famous bicycle trip.
01 September 2005
Single 8, edited in camera, 2005. Made at The Glenfiddich Distillery Artist in Residence Programme, Dufftown, Scotland.
01 January 2016
Sequences of a spontaneous dance recital by Rolf Gelewski, born in Berlin but based in Brazil, solo dancer from the expressionism school, and disciple of Mary Wigman.
01 January 2015
Super 8 experimental film by Claudio Caldini.
19 August 2008
Using observation as a starting point, the filmmaker constructs a dystopian science fiction chronicle in La República.
30 June 1975
The filming of Ventana began as a test of the rewind and superimposition functions of the Single 8 camera: a crescendo of added layers.
01 January 1993
Experimental film by Claudio Caldini
01 May 1988
Complete version in three parts. Reconstructed from VHS transfers of the original Super-8. Music and film by Claudio Caldini, 1988.
01 January 2011
"Life is a latency that as time and space becomes visible as a figure. But never eat at all, there are other possible lives.
01 July 1981
The title Un enano en el jardin is an allusion to the Super 8 format and the setting where the actions that comprise the film unfold.
05 November 2022
"The title (how important is a good title) is perfect because, in effect, the video is that: a promise of something that is announced and does not materialize (because the image is always "coming undone") but that has the happiness and fulfillment of imminence.
09 November 2012
A man receives a haircut before meeting with his love.Outdoor night camera exercise.
01 October 2020
Solar meditation in the middle of a field of sunflowers, where vision and touch complement each other in a sensory immersion experience.
22 April 2018
A moving painting of a flower, which takes advantage of the metamorphosing capacity of the digital image and the flatness of electronic colour.
04 June 1975
A child plays on the beach; we are in home-movie territory. For years I thought I had made a film-poem, without knowing how to explain it, until Gilles Deleuze created the concept of "perception-image": A character acts on the screen and it is assumed to see the world in a certain way.
01 January 1971
A Super 8 film by Claudio Caldini, focused on a progressive music festival
11 October 1992
Second collaboration with the composers Haro/Fiori. The images refer to the crisis of the representation of reality which emerges with the mass diffusion of electronic images on television and on video in the last decade of the 20th century.
01 December 2022
In his second feature film, Leandro Listorti establishes a parallel between two worlds he seems to know well: that of plants and that of cinema.
01 January 2011
Argentina feature film.
01 January 1990
Super 8 film - U-MATIC Video hybrid. Music By Jorge Haro & Alejandro Fiori. 1990.
01 January 1977
The life story of an artist. The fantasy of a poetic burial accompanied by friends of cinema.
29 November 2009
2006-2009 / 8mm / color / sound / 1S / 8'
03 June 1982
The stone staircase of a temple in Gingee, Tamil Nadu, India, painted with geometric designs, filmed frame by frame during an ascent.
30 June 1975
When I first arrived in Barcelona in 1974 I decided to make a film about architect Antoni Gaudi's Park Guell.
30 June 1976
The slow rhythm of regular breathing determines an analogous rhythm in the image: the fugue of a candle flame toward a virtual infinity generated by a lens with variable focal length.
16 March 1982
To film without looking trough the viewfinder; to emulate a tactile, subconscious vision. This was the intention of "A traves de las ruinas", made during the Falklands War (April-May 1982).
02 June 1978
Short film that shows daisies throughout the day with music as an accompaniment.
01 August 2012
Super 8, B&W in color, approximately 25 minutes. Triple projection, sound in digital file. Music by Claudio Caldini.
01 June 2007
A film about friendship. A portrait of Claudio Caldini.
01 January 1978
Branches, leaves, and flowers overlap and mingle. The film closes with a passage from philosopher Zhuang Zhou.
07 April 1982
The silhouettes of a couple in the window were filmed with few directions for the protagonists. They suggested the synthesis of cinematic space and the universality of their figures.
01 May 2026
A planet populated by disoriented beings. Camera, editing, music: Claudio Caldini
01 August 2007
S/T (sin título) (untitled) 2007. Super 8, Silent. Transfer by Framediscreet. Made as a Visiting Artist at Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT).
05 November 2022
Creating a garden is a process of action. Ephemeral joy of the sight.
05 June 2024
What can't be pronounced. What can't be heard. Words don't work. One person. Another person. Sharing their eyes.
