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[edit] Caleb Botton

(English Romany film maker)

[edit] Profile

Caleb Botton is Britain's only full blooded Gypsy film maker, his radical approaches to his projects has made him more infamous than famous. He spent two years in Central America working on film and still projects with the politically oppressed. “7 Days in Carmel” which was made while there, has been described as a "Moving Icon".

Caleb is from the auteur filmatic approach, where the director writes and produces the work, including the screen play. As a film maker he is particularly noted for his work with natural light, saying, "I try to capture time and light, much like Monet.". This is evident in his work "Translucence", which was inspired by the diaries of the late Derek Jarman, which were written while he was dying from AIDS. Botton's images were set to a score of contemporary classical music, composed by Donna Mckevitt.

Translucence was banned when it first appeared but re-released on the tenth anniversary of Jarman'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 Jarman's 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 compelled to make a moving icon."; "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.
And "The Undivieded Heart."
He has been nominated for best director, writer and producer.

[edit] Body of Work

Features include:
”Much lived little learned.” 1997
“Media Darlings.” 1998
“Searching for Bobbie Satva.” 2003
“7 Days in Carmel.” 2006.

 "KorEnglsih." 2007.
" The Undiveded Heart." 2008.

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.”
" The Undiveded Heart."