Jorge Caballero

Directing

Jorge Caballero

Known for

Directing

Credits

28 titles

Jorge Caballero is a filmmaker, researcher and educator working at the intersection of cinema, computation and social inquiry. He holds a PhD in Film and Artificial Intelligence from Pompeu Fabra University and is an associate professor at UPF and UAB. He co-founded Artefacto and GusanoFilms; his films and interactive works have premiered at TIFF, NYFF, Rotterdam, IDFA, Hot Docs, SXSW and Visions du Réel, with support from the Sundance Institute and the Tribeca Film Institute. As a director he has twice won Colombia's National Documentary Award, for Bagatela and Nacer. His current work focuses on iterative methods, AI-assisted creative processes and open tools for documentary practice.

Known for

The Stillness Syndrome poster
4.7

In 2018, a group of filmmakers calling themselves "Los Quietos" set out to make a film essay on a hypothetical syndrome of stillness in the Republic of Colombia. To this end, they invite Colombian documentary master Luis Ospina, presidential candidate Gustavo Petro and writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez to give them clues to delve into the history, geography and idiosyncrasy of Colombia, a country that, paradoxically, has very little of stillness. For unknown reasons, the project remained unfinished.

The Stillness Syndrome

2021

Atlas of Disappearance poster
NR

Three relatives of missing people travel a long and complex path in search of the remains of their loved ones, facing bureaucratic, legal and social processes that have persisted since the Civil War. Atlas of disappearance reconstructs what oblivion and repression tried to hide. Through digital maps, archives and forensic architecture, the film illuminates the silent transfer of thousands of missing people to the Cuelgamuros Valley during the Franco dictatorship. Between absences and silences, the film shows the constant struggle to recover the truth, giving name and place to those who were torn from history.

Atlas of Disappearance

2026

Patient poster
8.0

PATIENT is the word that defines us as we follow medical instructions or have to stay calm while we wait. In Colombia, a country where the harsh health system requires its users to face absurd bureaucratic obstacles to access its services, PATIENT is not only the one who has the disease, but also the one in the daily struggle ensuring that his or her loved one receives all necessary needs. Nubia is a PATIENT, a mother who, despite living with the anguish of possibly losing her daughter to an aggressive cancer, firmly gets to overcome the labyrinths established by the Health System processes upon which her daughter's life depends.

Patient

2015

Robin Bank poster
6.8

The story of Enric Duran, a Catalan activist who, during the economic crisis of 2008, stole —by borrowing loans that he never paid back— half a million euros from banks, donated them to social projects and announced it to the media to denounce the practices of the banking system.

Robin Bank

2022

La estafa del amor poster
NR

We invited a group of people to a reading of the script of a film about a man who romanced women in order to swindle them. As the reading progressed, people began to dig into their own stories. The whole thing was recorded live. The result is a shared reflection on the ideal of romantic love and the extraordinary (and not necessarily positive) influence it has on men and women.

La estafa del amor

2023

On the Other Side poster
8.0

When director Iván Guarnizo's mother passes during the first days of peace talks with FARC-EP in Colombia, a door opens to explore a dark and painful past and, perhaps, find forgiveness. Iván's mother had been kidnapped by FARC-EP forces and held in captivity for 603 days. As they marched her through the jungles and mountains of the Colombian countryside, she was able to keep a diary that in great detail documented the places she was taken, her experiences and the names and descriptions of her captors.

On the Other Side

2021

Behind the camera

The Stillness Syndrome poster
4.7

In 2018, a group of filmmakers calling themselves "Los Quietos" set out to make a film essay on a hypothetical syndrome of stillness in the Republic of Colombia. To this end, they invite Colombian documentary master Luis Ospina, presidential candidate Gustavo Petro and writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez to give them clues to delve into the history, geography and idiosyncrasy of Colombia, a country that, paradoxically, has very little of stillness. For unknown reasons, the project remained unfinished.

The Stillness Syndrome

2021

The Stillness Syndrome poster
4.7

In 2018, a group of filmmakers calling themselves "Los Quietos" set out to make a film essay on a hypothetical syndrome of stillness in the Republic of Colombia. To this end, they invite Colombian documentary master Luis Ospina, presidential candidate Gustavo Petro and writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez to give them clues to delve into the history, geography and idiosyncrasy of Colombia, a country that, paradoxically, has very little of stillness. For unknown reasons, the project remained unfinished.

The Stillness Syndrome

2021

Atlas of Disappearance poster
NR

Three relatives of missing people travel a long and complex path in search of the remains of their loved ones, facing bureaucratic, legal and social processes that have persisted since the Civil War. Atlas of disappearance reconstructs what oblivion and repression tried to hide. Through digital maps, archives and forensic architecture, the film illuminates the silent transfer of thousands of missing people to the Cuelgamuros Valley during the Franco dictatorship. Between absences and silences, the film shows the constant struggle to recover the truth, giving name and place to those who were torn from history.

Atlas of Disappearance

2026

Patient poster
8.0

PATIENT is the word that defines us as we follow medical instructions or have to stay calm while we wait. In Colombia, a country where the harsh health system requires its users to face absurd bureaucratic obstacles to access its services, PATIENT is not only the one who has the disease, but also the one in the daily struggle ensuring that his or her loved one receives all necessary needs. Nubia is a PATIENT, a mother who, despite living with the anguish of possibly losing her daughter to an aggressive cancer, firmly gets to overcome the labyrinths established by the Health System processes upon which her daughter's life depends.

Patient

2015

Patient poster
8.0

PATIENT is the word that defines us as we follow medical instructions or have to stay calm while we wait. In Colombia, a country where the harsh health system requires its users to face absurd bureaucratic obstacles to access its services, PATIENT is not only the one who has the disease, but also the one in the daily struggle ensuring that his or her loved one receives all necessary needs. Nubia is a PATIENT, a mother who, despite living with the anguish of possibly losing her daughter to an aggressive cancer, firmly gets to overcome the labyrinths established by the Health System processes upon which her daughter's life depends.

Patient

2015

Robin Bank poster
6.8

The story of Enric Duran, a Catalan activist who, during the economic crisis of 2008, stole —by borrowing loans that he never paid back— half a million euros from banks, donated them to social projects and announced it to the media to denounce the practices of the banking system.

Robin Bank

2022

La estafa del amor poster
NR

We invited a group of people to a reading of the script of a film about a man who romanced women in order to swindle them. As the reading progressed, people began to dig into their own stories. The whole thing was recorded live. The result is a shared reflection on the ideal of romantic love and the extraordinary (and not necessarily positive) influence it has on men and women.

La estafa del amor

2023

On the Other Side poster
8.0

When director Iván Guarnizo's mother passes during the first days of peace talks with FARC-EP in Colombia, a door opens to explore a dark and painful past and, perhaps, find forgiveness. Iván's mother had been kidnapped by FARC-EP forces and held in captivity for 603 days. As they marched her through the jungles and mountains of the Colombian countryside, she was able to keep a diary that in great detail documented the places she was taken, her experiences and the names and descriptions of her captors.

On the Other Side

2021

09/05/1982 poster
NR

A damaged film shot in 1982 in a Latin American country documents the violence that took place on 9 May that year. Beneath its apparent banality, the film raises suspicions of manipulation of the truth.

09/05/1982

2025

Dora Sena poster
NR

With the Colombian government making little effort to come up with concrete proposals to tackle the healthcare crisis triggered by Covid-19 and the Colombian parliament passing utterly incomprehensible bills on the issue, Jorge Caballero Ramos decided to take matters into his own hands by using AI to create a new, fictional member of the Colombian Senate: Dora Sena. Dora's mission is to spark debate in the middle of a pandemic. But can an AI machine really write effective parliamentary bills for dystopian situations?

Dora Sena

2020

Dora Sena poster
NR

With the Colombian government making little effort to come up with concrete proposals to tackle the healthcare crisis triggered by Covid-19 and the Colombian parliament passing utterly incomprehensible bills on the issue, Jorge Caballero Ramos decided to take matters into his own hands by using AI to create a new, fictional member of the Colombian Senate: Dora Sena. Dora's mission is to spark debate in the middle of a pandemic. But can an AI machine really write effective parliamentary bills for dystopian situations?

Dora Sena

2020

Dora Sena poster
NR

With the Colombian government making little effort to come up with concrete proposals to tackle the healthcare crisis triggered by Covid-19 and the Colombian parliament passing utterly incomprehensible bills on the issue, Jorge Caballero Ramos decided to take matters into his own hands by using AI to create a new, fictional member of the Colombian Senate: Dora Sena. Dora's mission is to spark debate in the middle of a pandemic. But can an AI machine really write effective parliamentary bills for dystopian situations?

Dora Sena

2020

Bagatela poster
10.0

A portrait of the daily life of justice, the day-to-day petty crime in Bogotá, a city accustomed to violence and inequality. Each story, a trifle, a social reality that Colombian law always tries to punish.

Bagatela

2009

Bagatela poster
10.0

A portrait of the daily life of justice, the day-to-day petty crime in Bogotá, a city accustomed to violence and inequality. Each story, a trifle, a social reality that Colombian law always tries to punish.

Bagatela

2009

Bagatela poster
10.0

A portrait of the daily life of justice, the day-to-day petty crime in Bogotá, a city accustomed to violence and inequality. Each story, a trifle, a social reality that Colombian law always tries to punish.

Bagatela

2009

Nacer poster
NR

Every day, in the maternity wards of Bogota's public hospitals, hundreds of women give birth to their children. Case by case, birth give birth, a social reality is revealed from each individual situation. To expect, to fulfill, to want, to defend, to accept and to resist, verbs that make up this direct and demystified portrait of the hospital birth and that reflect an essential part of a country.

Nacer

2012

Nacer poster
NR

Every day, in the maternity wards of Bogota's public hospitals, hundreds of women give birth to their children. Case by case, birth give birth, a social reality is revealed from each individual situation. To expect, to fulfill, to want, to defend, to accept and to resist, verbs that make up this direct and demystified portrait of the hospital birth and that reflect an essential part of a country.

Nacer

2012

Generative Rain poster
NR

After the driest April on record in Catalonia, rain finally arrived in May. May 25th saw the highest precipitation in Barcelona, while not ending the drought, did slow it down. On that day, we extracted climate data from the Meteorological Service of Catalonia, Meteocat, and transformed it into Generative RAIN: an audiovisual experiment that generates stories automatically using artificial intelligence (AI) models. Every hour, based on the forecast, we modified input instructions, resulting in the creation of texts, images, and sounds. We then selected and organized these elements into an audiovisual experience.

Generative Rain

2023

Generative Rain poster
NR

After the driest April on record in Catalonia, rain finally arrived in May. May 25th saw the highest precipitation in Barcelona, while not ending the drought, did slow it down. On that day, we extracted climate data from the Meteorological Service of Catalonia, Meteocat, and transformed it into Generative RAIN: an audiovisual experiment that generates stories automatically using artificial intelligence (AI) models. Every hour, based on the forecast, we modified input instructions, resulting in the creation of texts, images, and sounds. We then selected and organized these elements into an audiovisual experience.

Generative Rain

2023

Chronicle of a City That Was poster
NR

A virtual reality experience through some of the most emblematic streets of downtown Bogotá, told through seven stories by one of the pioneers of crime reporting in Colombia, José Joaquín Jiménez "Ximénez". A journey through a city that once was, and will never be again.

Chronicle of a City That Was

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Chronicle of a City That Was poster
NR

A virtual reality experience through some of the most emblematic streets of downtown Bogotá, told through seven stories by one of the pioneers of crime reporting in Colombia, José Joaquín Jiménez "Ximénez". A journey through a city that once was, and will never be again.

Chronicle of a City That Was

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Arrow's Paradox poster
NR

The day begins at 6 a.m. in Mr. Arrow's house. Get up, shower, have breakfast, get dressed and leave. Day after day, the same programmed actions. Life is bounded, and escape is impossible.

Arrow's Paradox

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Arrow's Paradox poster
NR

The day begins at 6 a.m. in Mr. Arrow's house. Get up, shower, have breakfast, get dressed and leave. Day after day, the same programmed actions. Life is bounded, and escape is impossible.

Arrow's Paradox

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Arrow's Paradox poster
NR

The day begins at 6 a.m. in Mr. Arrow's house. Get up, shower, have breakfast, get dressed and leave. Day after day, the same programmed actions. Life is bounded, and escape is impossible.

Arrow's Paradox

—

The Dolphin Protector poster
NR

A documentary for Discovery Channel and Señal Colombia. Fernando Trujillo is a marine biologist who has devoted his life to protecting dolphins.

The Dolphin Protector

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Aphantasia poster
NR

Aphantasia is a short film that contemplates memory and imagination in the contemporary world. With the development of new machines to create images outside the human mind, are we witnessing the birth of a collective imagination, or the permanent atrophy of imagination?

Aphantasia

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Aphantasia poster
NR

Aphantasia is a short film that contemplates memory and imagination in the contemporary world. With the development of new machines to create images outside the human mind, are we witnessing the birth of a collective imagination, or the permanent atrophy of imagination?

Aphantasia

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Statistical Hallucination poster
NR

Statistical Hallucination is a tribute to Chris Marker's film La Jetée (1962), a story about a time traveler obsessed with an image from his past, to produce this statistical hallucination generated with artificial intelligence systems. Instead of Jean Négroni's voice, we now have a synthetic voice. In place of photographs of a post-apocalyptic Paris, there are those imagined by an artificial intelligence. What will the images of the future be?

Statistical Hallucination

2023