Claudio Caldini

Señales de humo (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. ...

PROMISE (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 immin ...

El jardín vislumbrado (2022)

Creating a garden is a process of action. Ephemeral joy of the sight. ...

Heliografía (remix) (2021)

Digital edition of the original 1993 video-tape. Dedicated to Dr. Albert Hofmann and his famous bicycle trip. ...

Poilean (2020)

Solar meditation in the middle of a field of sunflowers, where vision and touch complement each other in a sensory immersion experience. ...

Calendario de lluvias (2019)

"Rain is a thing that surely happens in the past" Borges ...

Rosoideae (2018)

A moving painting of a flower, which takes advantage of the metamorphosing capacity of the digital image and the flatness of electronic colour. ...

A R P (2016)

The pass of time in nature accompanied by music. ...

trío 1990 (2016)

Video: Caldini, 2016. ...

Rolf Gelewski, spiritual dancer (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. ...

Deadline (2015)

Made as a Visiting Artist at Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT). ...

Intervened Events (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. Each one of t ...

H R Z N T (2011)

Experimental animation. The projectors make up a seemingly elastic horizon, filmed from different perspectives from a viewpoint. ...

4:3 (2010)

Experimental short film. ...

Lux Taal (2009)

2006-2009 / 8mm / color / sound / 1S / 8' ...

S/T (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). Supported by The Canada Council For The Arts. ...

Prisma (2005)

Single 8, edited in camera, 2005. Made at The Glenfiddich Distillery Artist in Residence Programme, Dufftown, Scotland. Distillery sounds recorded by Claudio Caldini with Andy Fairgrieve. Processing assisted by Martín Pavlovsky. Synth Programming by Cal ...

Heliografía (1993)

Experimental film by Claudio Caldini ...

Consequence (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. The piece also ...

The Evolution of the Stones (1988)

Complete version in three parts. Reconstructed from VHS transfers of the original Super-8. Music and film by Claudio Caldini, 1988. ...

I'll make you pay for this (1986)

Film of "El Clú del Claun", directed by Claudio Caldini, which opened the show "I'll make you pay for this...!", from 1987. Shot at the Centro Parakultural, Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...

The Circular Scene (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. The camera draws attention to moments, gestures, and actions, all insert ...

Through the Ruins (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). The camera is a vacillating gaze that moves about in the darkness ...

Vadi-Samvadi (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. ...

Gamelan (1981)

The camera as the operator's satellite describes a circular path around it, making visible the forces that hold it in orbit. Radius and tangent signal the direction of vision. At times a stroboscopic illusion is created and the movement seems to be inverte ...

A Dwarf in the Garden (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. A catalogue of extreme experiments with the mobility of the camera coordinated with brief improvisations by the Brazilian ...

Offering (1978)

Short film that shows daisies throughout the day with music as an accompaniment. ...

Cuarteto (1978)

Branches, leaves, and flowers overlap and mingle. The film closes with a passage from philosopher Zhuang Zhou. ...

Sensation '77: Mimicry (1977)

A woman hides in the forest, attempting to become one with the landscape. ...

Aspiraciones (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. Each appearance of this vector (successive fixed positions of the zoom) ...

¡¡¡¡Guauch!!!! (1976)

Ventana (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. The space is a camera obscura in which the cameraman's movements convert a line of light into multidirectional rays. Tow ...

Film Gaudí (1975)

When I first arrived in Barcelona in 1974 I decided to make a film about architect Antoni Gaudi's Park Guell. I found a film already conceived in the 1914 design; it was enough to follow the trajectories traced by Gaudi, imagine them as a labyrinth, reprod ...

Baltazar (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 ...

5 Aspects 5 (1971)

«This film was made by for a contest of the Local Council of Buenos Aires» - Claudio Caldini ...

B.A.Rock 1971 (1971)

A Super 8 film by Claudio Caldini, focused on a progressive music festival ...

De mes amours décomposées (1970)

Fiction based on texts by Baudelaire, Sade, Lovecraft and Lautréamont. ...

Herbaria (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. This delicate cinematographic work, full of beautiful images—both archival and current—gives an account of ...

A (possible) trip around the world in super 8 (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. ...

El Mito de Narciso (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. Making a life is difficult, filming the impossible itself . with this imago-auto-bio-graphy is an attempt to talk about this amb ...

Hachazos (2011)

Argentina feature film. ...

Testamento y vida interior (1977)

The life story of an artist. The fantasy of a poetic burial accompanied by friends of cinema. ...