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Caleb Botton

(English Romany, film maker, writer and lecturer. Author of The Gypsy CookBook. Caleb Botton is a British writer and director who writes, produces and directs features and feature documentaries. He works in the auteur filmatic approach where the director writes and produces the work, including the screenplay. He is noted for his work with natural light. "I try to capture time and light, much like expressionist artists." This approach is evident in his work on "Translucence", which was inspired by the diaries f the late Derek Jarman, written while he was dying of AIDS. Botton's images were set to a score of contemporary classical music, composed by Donna Mckevitt. Botton said he used the "camera like a brush" in creating a piece with no cuts, just a series of dissolves and fades resulting in a pure sense of film art.

Botton's work "7 Days in Carmel" takes this ‘painting with the camera’ and filming light as time, one step further. Said Botton "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."

Botton was the first Western film Director to make a feature film in South Korea, a film entitled ‘The Undivided Heart’ based on his own script.

Romany by birth, Botton has traveled the world as a participant observer, from the foothills of the Pyrenees to the shores of Belize. From the prairies of Southern Alberta to streets of London. his keen eye, and ear, for contemporary culture combined with his innate instinct for what is to come in these transitional times are well reflected in his treatment of the subject matter addressed in his latest work entitled: KorEnglish.

Caleb Botton is also the person behind the music and culture label BOSC, "British Bombay Busan Old School Connoisseurs Club." 'Bobbies Old Skool Club." titles taken from his film "Serching for Bobbie Satva." about a reclusive DJ.

Early life.

Botton grew up in both North America and England where his father had business. He was educated in England but was taken out of school at twelve years old to work full time for his father. He left North America in his early twenties to work in music as a producer and DJ during the house music explosion and known for his striking features he worked in fashion as a catwalk model. At twenty seven years old he went back to school and graduated with a honors degree and within a year of this he has made his first full length feature “Media Darlings.” A satire on contemporary media culture which accurately Forecasted the cult of reality television. The film cut too close to the bone of the British media establishment and in disgust of the old boy Oxbridge club pulled the film and became an independent artist and has since only focused on his own film projects.

Botton was based in South Korea for over a decade, citing, “The balance of cultural, economic and artistic power has shifted to Asia, and I want to be a part of this new movement.”

Body of Work

Features include: "KorEnglish" 2010 "The Undivided Heart" 2008 "7 Days in Carmel" 2006 "Searching for Bobbie Satva" 2003 "Media Darlings" 1998 "Much Lived Little Learned" 1997

Documentaries include: "Translucence" 2004 (Performance Film Cycle) "Perceptions of the Myth" 1998

Screen Plays include: "Swallowed" "Media Darlings" "The Gaelic Girl" "The Bay" "The Polwick Inheritance" "Searching for Bobby Satva" "The Undivided Heart"

Books “The Gypsy CookBook”