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Caleb Botton. English Romany film maker. Features include, ”Much lived little learned.” 1997. “Media Darlings.” 1998. “Searching for Bobbie Satva.” 2003. “7 Days in Carmel.” 2006. Documentaries, “Perceptions of the Myth.” 1998. Performance film cycle “Translucence.” 2003. screen plays, “Swallowed.” “Media Darlings.” “The Gallic Girl.” “The Bay.” “The Polwick Inheritance.” “Searching for Bobbie Satva.”
Caleb Botton is Britain's only full blooded Gypsy film maker, his radical approaches to his projects has made him more infamous then famous. He spent two years in Central America working on film and still projects with the politically oppressed. “7 Days in Carmel.” was made while there which has been described as a "Moving Ikon." Caleb is from the auteur filmatic approach where the director writes and produces the work, including all his screen plays, he is particularly noted for his work with natural light, he says, "I try to capture time and light, much like Monet." This is evident in his work "Translucence," which the diaries written by the Late Derrick Jarmin as he was dying from AIDS, were set to contemporary classical music by Donna Mckevitt. Translucence was banned when it first appeared but re- released on the tenth anniversary of Jarmen’s death. The piece was performed at the Tate Britain with a William Turner painting as the back drop. Botton says, "I used Turner’s colours and style with light and twilight, and Jarmins fading light of life and took it from there." Botton said he used "The camera like a brush." the piece has no cuts just a series of dissolves and fades. A pure sense of film art. 7 Days in Carmel takes this painting and filming light as time, one step further. Botton Says "I was moved to make a moving ikon."I approached the work with prayer and fasting much like the monks on Mount Athos." "The film is a form of prayer." He is currently in production in Asia working on the feature Korenglish He has been nominated for best director, writer and producer.
