Jamie Caliri
Template:Short description Jamie Caliri (born February 22, 1970, in Buffalo, New York) is an American director, known primarily for music videos, television commercials and title sequences.
Between 1988 and 1992, he studied film, design, and animation at the California Institute of the Arts. He is also a self-taught still photographer.
He has been signed to production companies Acme Filmworks (ca. 1992–ca. 1994), Duck Soup Studios (1994–1995) and its division The Front (1995–1997), MJZ and its satellite Stimmung (1997–ca. 1999), and Windmill Lane and its subsidiary Pusher (2003–ca. 2005).
He has directed commercials for Children's Medical Center (Dallas) (2010), Fruitopia (1997), KCRW (1996), Pier 1 Imports, and United Airlines (2006[1] and 2008), among others.
In 2006, he was asked to explore animation concepts for a feature film adaptation of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. The project fell through, but Caliri posted two and a half minutes of concept footage he directed, titled The Escapist v.s. The Iron Gauntlet, on his Vimeo channel.[2]
As a still photographer, he has worked for clients such as Capitol Records, Interscope Records and Helios Dance Theater.
In addition to this, he also DPed a number of short films, music videos and commercials and taught experimental animation at CalArts.
Since 1993, he and his software engineer brother Dyami Caliri have collaborated to create stop motion animation software. In 2005, they developed Dragonframe.[3]
Personal life
Caliri has two younger brothers, drummer Mario Calire and Dyami Caliri. He and his youngest brother Dyami legally changed the spelling of their last names from "Calire" to "Caliri" to reflect the original Italian spelling.[citation needed]
Filmography
Music videos
- Soul Coughing, "Super Bon Bon", released December 1996[4]
- Morphine, "Early to Bed", March 1997, nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video in 1998[5]
- Cypress Hill, "Boom Biddy Bye Bye (Fugees Remix)", August 1996, co-directed by Dante Ariola[6]
- Marcy Playground, "Sex and Candy", October 1997[7][8]
- Eels, "Your Lucky Day in Hell", December 1997[9]
- Black Lab, "Time Ago", May 1998[10]
- Cherry Poppin' Daddies, "Brown Derby Jump", July 1998[11]
- Marcy Playground, "Comin' Up from Behind", March 1999[12]
- The Shins, "The Rifle's Spiral", April 2012, co-directed by Alexander Juhasz[13]
Title sequences
- Big Apple, 2001, opening credits[14]
- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, 2004, end titles[15]
- Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, 2008, end titles[16]
- United States of Tara, 2009, opening credits, won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design in 2009[17]
Short films
- The Escapist v.s. The Iron Gauntlet, 2006
- The Sun and the Seed, 2008[18]
Album art
- Cypress Hill, Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom, 1995, photography[19]
- Marcy Playground, Shapeshifter, 1999, photography[19]
- The Wallflowers, Red Letter Days, 2002, art direction / packaging / photography[19]
References
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- ^ "Dragon" premiered during Super Bowl XL.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Caliri, Jamie (8 March 2010). "The Escapist v.s. The Iron Gauntlet" – via Vimeo.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."About Us - Dragonframe". dragonframe.com.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Music – Music News, New Songs, Videos, Music Shows and Playlists from MTV". www.mtv.com. Archived from the original on April 16, 2009.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Complete List of Academy Voter Picks". Los Angeles Times. January 7, 1998. p. 15. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Music – Music News, New Songs, Videos, Music Shows and Playlists from MTV". www.mtv.com. Archived from the original on February 18, 2009.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Music – Music News, New Songs, Videos, Music Shows and Playlists from MTV". www.mtv.com. Archived from the original on December 1, 2008.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Feature of the Week". www.mtv.com. Archived from the original on 2001-10-31.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Music – Music News, New Songs, Videos, Music Shows and Playlists from MTV". www.mtv.com. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."black lab :: time ago :: video". www.blacklabworld.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-19. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cherry Poppin' Daddies Talk About Getting Surreal In New Video". MTV. 1998-08-03. Archived from the original on July 11, 2003.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Media". Marcyplayground.com. Archived from the original on 2013-07-09. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jamie Caliri: The Shins "The Rifle's Spiral"". motionographer.com. 18 April 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Movies". The New York Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Vlaanderen, Remco. "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events title sequence - Watch the Titles". www.watchthetitles.com.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Vlaanderen, Remco. "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa title sequence - Watch the Titles". www.watchthetitles.com.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Vlaanderen, Remco. "United States of Tara title sequence - Watch the Titles". www.watchthetitles.com.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jamie Caliri – The Sun and the Seed on No Fat Clips!!!". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jamie Caliri - Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic.
External links
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