Juanma Calderón

Directing

Juanma Calderón

Known for

Directing

Credits

6 titles

JuanMa Calderon (Lima, 1967) began his audiovisual career in the 1990s, documenting Lima's underground art scene. His training incorporated an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating rock, dance, and poetry, resulting in an extensive body of experimental videos. In 2001, he went into self-imposed exile in New York, where he produced a series of programs for Brooklyn's public television station about Latin American artists living in the Big Apple. He also founded the Latin American art movement Spanic Attack. In 2004, he made his first feature film, the dark comedy Reasons for Exile, an autobiographical account of his experience as a Latin American immigrant in New York City. In 2006, he tr…

Known for

Amores Gatos poster
NR

Amores Gatos is an experimental tragicomedy about a wannabe-poet jack-of-all-trades dilettante that earns his living as a cat-sitter in NYC. On a raucous night on the job he manages to lose the same cat three times only to realize, when the owners unexpectedly return, that their cat has been replaced by another.

Amores Gatos

2015

No artwork available
NR

Karnaval is a wild party. A crazy mix of nouveau realism, Buster Keaton-style farces, and Kill Bill.

Karnaval

2013

Razones para el Exxxilio poster
NR

Gabriel (Giovanni Ciccia) arrives to New York with the hope of devoting himself to his great passion: cinema. After many attempts, Gabriel feels that he has managed to write a script of his career, a story that will give life to an original pornographic film. With an excellent script in his hands, but without any money, he looks for alternatives to produce his film.

Razones para el Exxxilio

2004

Motivos para el exilio poster
NR

Two brothers travel to Madrid to rescue the head of the last Inca king and take it back to Peru to use as a symbol of power. Inspired by the myth of Inkarri, about the resurrection of the Inca Empire, this story serves to illustrate a different reality: the current Peruvian migration to this European city. The stories of various migrants intertwine, irreverently and humorously offering a comprehensive overview of the diverse realities and motivations behind the exile and self-imposed exile of Peruvians and Latin Americans in Madrid.

Motivos para el exilio

2007

No artwork available
NR

A one-minute video about eternal love.

El amor eterno es una foto instantánea

2000

No artwork available
NR

A lovelorn man can't muster the courage to confess his feelings to the beautiful girl sitting next to him on the New York subway. He tries and tries in a romantic, endless loop, acted and set to live music.

El amor eterno es una parada del subway

2002

Behind the camera

Amores Gatos poster
NR

Amores Gatos is an experimental tragicomedy about a wannabe-poet jack-of-all-trades dilettante that earns his living as a cat-sitter in NYC. On a raucous night on the job he manages to lose the same cat three times only to realize, when the owners unexpectedly return, that their cat has been replaced by another.

Amores Gatos

2015

No artwork available
NR

Karnaval is a wild party. A crazy mix of nouveau realism, Buster Keaton-style farces, and Kill Bill.

Karnaval

2013

Razones para el Exxxilio poster
NR

Gabriel (Giovanni Ciccia) arrives to New York with the hope of devoting himself to his great passion: cinema. After many attempts, Gabriel feels that he has managed to write a script of his career, a story that will give life to an original pornographic film. With an excellent script in his hands, but without any money, he looks for alternatives to produce his film.

Razones para el Exxxilio

2004

Motivos para el exilio poster
NR

Two brothers travel to Madrid to rescue the head of the last Inca king and take it back to Peru to use as a symbol of power. Inspired by the myth of Inkarri, about the resurrection of the Inca Empire, this story serves to illustrate a different reality: the current Peruvian migration to this European city. The stories of various migrants intertwine, irreverently and humorously offering a comprehensive overview of the diverse realities and motivations behind the exile and self-imposed exile of Peruvians and Latin Americans in Madrid.

Motivos para el exilio

2007

No artwork available
NR

A one-minute video about eternal love.

El amor eterno es una foto instantánea

2000

No artwork available
NR

A lovelorn man can't muster the courage to confess his feelings to the beautiful girl sitting next to him on the New York subway. He tries and tries in a romantic, endless loop, acted and set to live music.

El amor eterno es una parada del subway

2002