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 Fundac…

Directed

1. Offering (1978) — Director
2. Ventana (1975) — Director
3. Lux Taal (2009) — Director
4. Heliografía (1993) — Director
5. Through the Ruins (1982) — Director
6. Vadi-Samvadi (1981) — Director
7. The Evolution of the Stones (1988) — Director
8. A Dwarf in the Garden (1981) — Director
9. Heliografía (remix) (2021) — Director
10. The Republic (2008) — Director
11. Intervened Events (2014) — Director
12. The Circular Scene (1982) — Director
13. Film Gaudí (1975) — Director
14. Aspiraciones (1976) — Director
15. B.A.Rock 1971 (1971) — Director
16. Chromatic Phantoms (2012) — Director
17. Cuarteto (1978) — Director
18. H R Z N T (2011) — Director
19. A R P (2016) — Director
20. May Avenue (2012) — Director
21. Poilean (2020) — Director
22. I'll make you pay for this (1986) — Director
23. Consequence (1992) — Director
24. A New Day (2016) — Director
25. Rosoideae (2018) — Director
26. Templo Cerrado (1982) — Director
27. Baltazar (1975) — Director
28. Prisma (2005) — Director
29. El jardín vislumbrado (2022) — Director
30. Señales de humo (2022) — Director
31. PROMISE (2022) — Director
32. Gamelan (1981) — Director
33. Deadline (2015) — Director
34. 5 Aspects 5 (1971) — Director
35. Rolf Gelewski, spiritual dancer (2016) — Director
36. Calendario de lluvias (2019) — Director
37. Simulacro (1990) — Director
38. S/T (2007) — Director
39. 4:3 (2010) — Director
40. trío 1990 (2016) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Hachazos (2011)
2. El Mito de Narciso (2011)
3. Herbaria (2022)
4. Testamento y vida interior (1977)
5. A (possible) trip around the world in super 8 (2021)
6. Bajo tierra (2007)