
Directing
Charlie Jimenez
Born
2001-02-18 (25)
Place of birth
Chelsea, London, England, UK
Known for
Directing
Credits
16 titles
Charlie Jimenez is a London and Dorchester-based filmmaker/artist known for their surreal and dreamy moving-image and performance art. Charlie creates visions which are both personal and mythological, which explore the relation between between body and memory evoking the otherworldly and liminal in the merging between imagined and real. Their films focus on the transformation in the flux of decay and mutation. Charlie gained notoriety in London's underground queer art scene, creating live tableaus which synthesise butoh and live installation into haunting tableus which meditate on memory and ephemerality. Charlie's films have been featured across the world. Their student short film Keratin…
Known for
NRIn an abandoned underworld, a drained swimming pool becomes the well of creation, where scarred ancient figures give birth to light and desire. At its centre is Phanes, the androgynous god of light and creation, reimagined as a wounded, intersex angel reborn from a flood of flames.
Engines
2025
NRA spiral of dreams and ages unravel as two celestial characters awaken and transmutate into a mythological being.
Transmutation
2026
NRA space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.
A Fugue
2019
A live performance by Charlie Jimenez & Sioul Blaphate hosted as a pre-show to Rebel Reel CineClub's 'A Most Unholy Christmas' - a screening of Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain (1973) at Rio Cinema, 17th December, 2024. The performance is a live-theatre and dance piece loosely inspired by Jodorowsky's film and its influenced source Mount Analogue. Through dance, masks, and live-theatre, Mount Analogue navigates a procession of ascension through transforming bodies and shapes. A primordial place of transformation, magic, and symbols.
Mount Analogue
2025
A sleep paralyzed woman confronts her demons.
Macabre
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NRA paralysed woman awakens alone in her bedroom, as time continues without her.
Bed & Breakfast
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Film credits
2020s · 4 titles
A live performance by Charlie Jimenez & Sioul Blaphate hosted as a pre-show to Rebel Reel CineClub's 'A Most Unholy Christmas' - a screening of Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain (1973) at Rio Cinema, 17th December, 2024. The performance is a live-theatre and dance piece loosely inspired by Jodorowsky's film and its influenced source Mount Analogue. Through dance, masks, and live-theatre, Mount Analogue navigates a procession of ascension through transforming bodies and shapes. A primordial place of transformation, magic, and symbols.
Mount Analogue
2025
unknit the ghost is a live show exploring addiction and cycles of trauma. The show combines live performers choreographed by Charlie Jimenez with projections by video artist Autojektor. Staged at PORTAL 002 - plantroom, Smeed Road, London - April 12th, 2025.
Unknit the Ghost
2025
5.0Keratin is a collaboration with the London Sinfionetta, visually responding to Gavin Higgins' Seven Welsh Folk Songs: I. Dacw 'Nghariad i. The film tells the journey of a mating of elements, two bodies grieve over a lost third: a child separated from their womb. The three bodies bound by their keratin, regain connection in a wombic journey which spiritually networks the three into a fused collective body.
Keratin
2021
NRConfined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining fragments she tries to make amends with her spirit before her remaining fragments either decay or create.
Candle
2021
Behind the camera
NRIn an abandoned underworld, a drained swimming pool becomes the well of creation, where scarred ancient figures give birth to light and desire. At its centre is Phanes, the androgynous god of light and creation, reimagined as a wounded, intersex angel reborn from a flood of flames.
Engines
2025
NRA spiral of dreams and ages unravel as two celestial characters awaken and transmutate into a mythological being.
Transmutation
2026
NRA spiral of dreams and ages unravel as two celestial characters awaken and transmutate into a mythological being.
Transmutation
2026
NRA space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.
A Fugue
2019
A live performance by Charlie Jimenez & Sioul Blaphate hosted as a pre-show to Rebel Reel CineClub's 'A Most Unholy Christmas' - a screening of Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain (1973) at Rio Cinema, 17th December, 2024. The performance is a live-theatre and dance piece loosely inspired by Jodorowsky's film and its influenced source Mount Analogue. Through dance, masks, and live-theatre, Mount Analogue navigates a procession of ascension through transforming bodies and shapes. A primordial place of transformation, magic, and symbols.
Mount Analogue
2025
NRA paralysed woman awakens alone in her bedroom, as time continues without her.
Bed & Breakfast
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unknit the ghost is a live show exploring addiction and cycles of trauma. The show combines live performers choreographed by Charlie Jimenez with projections by video artist Autojektor. Staged at PORTAL 002 - plantroom, Smeed Road, London - April 12th, 2025.
Unknit the Ghost
2025
5.0Keratin is a collaboration with the London Sinfionetta, visually responding to Gavin Higgins' Seven Welsh Folk Songs: I. Dacw 'Nghariad i. The film tells the journey of a mating of elements, two bodies grieve over a lost third: a child separated from their womb. The three bodies bound by their keratin, regain connection in a wombic journey which spiritually networks the three into a fused collective body.
Keratin
2021
5.0Keratin is a collaboration with the London Sinfionetta, visually responding to Gavin Higgins' Seven Welsh Folk Songs: I. Dacw 'Nghariad i. The film tells the journey of a mating of elements, two bodies grieve over a lost third: a child separated from their womb. The three bodies bound by their keratin, regain connection in a wombic journey which spiritually networks the three into a fused collective body.
Keratin
2021
NRConfined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining fragments she tries to make amends with her spirit before her remaining fragments either decay or create.
Candle
2021
'February 30th, 1956' is a live theatre & screen performance meditating on life after death - told through a haunted space of expressionist figures from flashing and distorted memories. The performance imagines the memories of people forgotten and remembered as living wandering fragments of their former selves, serenading lost memories, until the light dances their way out of the ghost and into the memory. The performance features visuals by artist Autojektor and the Roe Darling Archive, with a live score by Josh Curtis. Performers ensemble: Chloé a.a Das Neves, Kuba Pawełczak, Ronan Cardoza and Louise Earwaker.
February 30th, 1956
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