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MIGUEL ÁNGEL CALDERÓN
b. Madrid, 1994
Lives and works in Madrid.
FILMOGRAPHY
2023 Esta línea - Commercial/Muscial performance - Director & cinematographer
2023 Women in Spain - Documentary series - Cinematographer
2022 The Oblivion of Mirrors - Short film and 3D collages - Director, cinematographer & 3D animator
2019 Two - Short film - Director & cinematographer
2018 The Stranger - 3-Channel film installation - Director & cinematographer
EDUCATION
2012-2016 Bachelor of Arts (with distinction), The University of Kansas, USA
EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2024 Tramway Film Festival, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
2024 Festival de Cine Peruano en Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2023 Lo único que vale la pena empezar: el fin del mundo, nada menos, HAMACA: Moving image platform, Spain
2023 Beijing International Short Film Festival, Beijing, China
2023 FIVA International Video Art Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2023 Lima Alterna International Film Festival, Lima, Peru
2022 El olvido de los espejos, Sala Negre, Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras, Alicante, Spain (solo exhibition)
2022 Butterflies count not months but moments, and have enough time, ASEAN-EU Cultural Festival
2022 Political Statement - LoosenArt, Millepiani, Rome, Italy
2022 Lima Alterna International Film Festival, Lima, Peru
2021 Márgenes - Independent Film Festival, Madrid, Spain
2021 Semana ARCO 2021, Centro de Residencias Artísticas, Matadero, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2021 Volver al encuentro, Centro de Residencias Artísticas, Matadero, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2021 Bardo Road, Participant Inc, New York, USA
2020 EIVV (Encontre Internacional de Videodansa i Videoperformance), Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
2020 Zumo de vídeo, Nave 73, Madrid, Spain
2019 IMARP (Mostra Internacional de Danza - Imagens em Movimento - Vídeo Danza), Sao Paulo, Brazil
2019 IntimaLente Festival, Caserta, Italy
2019 Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival, Mumbai, India
2019 MoziMotion, The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum, Netherlands
2018 Jahnkoy: Deceived No More, All-Russian Museum of Applied Arts, Moscow, Russia
2018 Docademia’s 2nd Short Documentary Festival, Chicago, USA
2018 Fake Flesh Film Test, Kamloops, Canada
2018 AFC Global Fest, Kolkata, India
2018 Marquee on Main, Historic Turnage Theatre, Washington, USA
2018 African Smartphone International Film Festival, Egbeda, Nigeria
2017 JAHNKOY, Bergdorf Goodman, New York City, USA
2017 Breaking Waves Festival, Nova Scotia, Canada
2017 Josiah Media Festival, The URBAN-15 Group, San Antonio, USA
2017 Miami Epic Festival, 1st Grand IndieWise Convention, Miami, USA
2017 Stories Lived - Personal Mission, Delray Beach, USA
2016 Smart Dust, SLA307, New York, USA
2016 Super 9 Mobile Film Festival, Porto, Portugal
2016 YO-NewYork, Mor Mor Studio, New York, USA
2016 Post Mortem International Film Festival, Aguascalientes, Mexico
2016 Senior Show, Chalmers Hall, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
2016 Bricolage, ART Emergency, Lawrence, USA
2015 The Late Mr. Mercury’s Magic Lantern Show, Art & Design Gallery, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
2015 Visual Arts Scholarship Show, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
2014 ACP Featured Students, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2022 Jury Special Mention, Lima Alterna International Film Festival
2021 Residency (6 months), Centro de Residencias Artísticas, Matadero Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2016 James K. Hitt Opportunity Award
2016 Amsden Award
2016 Burrows Art Scholarship
2015 Lavon Brosseau Special Opportunity Award
2015 Amsden Award Lockwood Scholarship
2014 HKN Underclassmen Achievement Award
2012-2016 Fulbright Scholarship, The University of Kansas
2012-2016 BARSA Scholarship
WORKSHOPS
2020 Art and dissidence, with Abel Azcona, Museum of Contemporary Art of Bogota, Bogota, Colombia (on line)
2020 FILMLAV: filming and developing in 16mm, MasterLAV, Madrid, Spain
2019 Writing for artists, with Juan José Santos Mateo, Espositivo, Madrid, Spain
2019 Freeport 0, with Geocinema: Asia Bazdyrieva, Solveig Suess, Tentacular Festival, Matadero Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2019 Editing movement, with Octavio Iturbe, Fiver International Screendance Movement, Matadero Madrid, Madrid, Spain
COMMERCIAL CLIENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS
FIFA
Johnson & Johnson
Matterport
BAUHAUS
Right to Dream
Gin Mare
SYNTHIA: Synthetic Data Generation
European Alliance for Personalized Medicine
HERE Arts Center
PRESS
Ramis, María. "PhotoAlicante 2022: la imagen como documento irrefutable de lo incierto", MAKMA: Revista de artes visuales y cultura contemporánea, Valencia, Spain. Magazine article. March 23, 2022
Chen, Jen. "KU Student Explores Kansas Gun Law in Art Project", KUCR, Kansas City, Missouri, United States. NPR Interview & Article. May 26, 2016.
Diaz-Camacho, Vicky. "KU senior confronts campus gun policy with art intervention", University Daily Kansan, Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Newspaper. May 5, 2016