Claudio Caldini
Claudio Caldini (born 1952) is an Argentine experimental filmmaker.
Biography
[edit]Caldini was born in 1952 and learned as a child how to use a camera.[1] His earliest films, starting in the late 1960s, were silent works documenting concerts in Buenos Aires.[2] Caldini joined the Unión de Cineastas de Paso Reducido (UNCIPAR) film collective, but his work was met with hostility there.[3] He came to be associated with other experimental Super 8 filmmakers known as the Grupo Cine Experimental Argentino, or the Grupo Goethe.[4] His 1975 film Ventana, in which he captured a narrow band of light coming through a window and layered it upon itself with various camera movements, marked a shift away from realism.[5]
After a stay in a psychiatric hospital, Caldini visited the Auroville planned community in 1978.[6] Ofrenda (1978) was made shortly after, while he was staying at his father's house. The film shows daisies from his father's garden, shot one frame at a time.[7][8] For many years, Caldini moved regularly, spending time in Argentina, India, and France. His activities during the 1980s included working as a stagehand, working as a lighting technician for Batato Barea, becoming a keyboardist, and working with a dance company.[6] Andrés Di Tella published a 2011 book Hachazos about Caldini, along with a documentary film the following year.[3]
Artistic style and influence
[edit]Caldini's films are often described as "poetic" or "lyrical".[6] Matt Losada connects the works not through shared techniques, but rather their ability to "reveal the hypnotic power of pure forms of nature".[8] He notes a frequent interest in plants and light, which he likens to the work of American filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky.[8] Caldini's late career has embraced live film performance and elements of expanded cinema.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Bollig 2021, pp. 39, 54.
- ^ Bollig 2021, pp. 56–57.
- ^ a b Bollig 2021, p. 54.
- ^ Ledesma, Eduardo (December 2017). "Intermediality and Hispano-Argentine Experimental Film". Revista Hispánica Moderna. 70 (2): 128–129. JSTOR 10.2307/90018095.
- ^ Bollig 2021, p. 57.
- ^ a b c d Bollig 2021, p. 55.
- ^ Bollig 2021, pp. 58–59.
- ^ a b c Losada, Matt (2013). "Argentine Experimental Film: Narcisa Hirsch and Claudio Caldini". Film Quarterly. 67 (1): 75. JSTOR 10.1525/fq.2013.67.1.73.
Bibliography
[edit]- Bollig, Ben (2021). Moving Verses: Poetry on Screen in Argentine Cinema. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781800859784.
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