Daniel Chamorro - Director de cine

Catharsis, with 30 awards, and the preselection to the Oscar Academy Award, is the most successful shortfilm of Daniel Chamorro. Filmed in Berlin, in German language, it´s a work about human incomunication. A man and a woman speak about their relationship in individual interviews. Two hearts and two forms to see life. They seem faced, but little by little it is discovered, that they are not it as much. We put walls, to face the problems of the world, but we see it´s only with dialectic, and finally with the love, the only way to fix the conflicts. 

Filmed after Catharsis, with “Don´t retire”, and already awarded, it is the last work of Daniel Chamorro. With this shortfilm Daniel tried to play with the camera as an important element of the comedy. The music and the sets are a character too. The property escapes floating through the air. It´s impossible to control what we think we have. Possession is a dirty old soap bar. A phone call irrupts in the life of a man and into his intimacy…

Filmed with “Don´t retire” and after Catharsis, and already awarded, it is the last work of Daniel Chamorro. In the shortfilm, the company enters in your world. It doesn´t matter to them what you´re doing, although they pretend to take care of you. A telephone call coming in the worst moment. Relations where the interlocutors can´t understand each other.

Filmed in Mexico DF, Natural Selection are the first medium film of Daniel Chamorro. It´s a story about essence of men, and about our visceral nature, where we can´t barely see the boundaries between good and evil. It´s the fight between our animal and human side. In an impossible city, a normal man is kidnapped and face himself. Without memory or past, he´s put in a game, where he will discover that in the worst situations the world is governed by the Natural Selection.

Solo for Chelo is constructed from the director´s necessity of nude himself thematically and formally. After his more elaborated shortfilms, Daniel was looking for new ways of expression through simplicity and naturalness to find the essence of film: truth. Themes like life and death, solitude, hope, illusion, are in this shortfilm mixed with their opposites.
For getting this objective Daniel has count again with his grandmother, Amy.For Chelo, you must share, not only youth, but oldness. An amused conversation, become into a deep reflexion.

24 instants was the first immersion in the serious comedy, by Daniel Chamorro. It was an improvised exercise, with two cameras, and the first time Chamorro worked acting with his sister Sara Wolff and his grandmother Amy. The shortfilm speak about death, and tries to say to us that we are owners of our time and we must be responsible about it, and avoid that at the end of our lives, we only will remember 24 instants.

The life of the 13th was a great challenge for Daniel Chamorro. Besides to compose the music, it designed the credits and it changed the color of the sky and the costumes colour of  the authority. They were more than 16,000 frames, altered during a year.  The life of the 13 is a work about the alienation of man. It is located in an abstract, nonexistent, metaphoric  space. This work speaks about a “not thinking” society, about routine, and about insatisfaction.

The creepy was a big challenge. It has to be done a shortfilm in a single day, from its conception to its conclusion. With a storyboard sketched in the way to the shooting, no budget and 3 people in the crew. It was demonstrated that big budget is not needed to tell great things. In the shortfilm we can see how you should not despise the weakest. You could have it returned back.

Infinite “∞” (Infinite)is the very first film of Chamorro. It´s a work that tries to play with the audio-visual resources and the space-time, trying to break with the classic narrative rules, thus experiencing with the mixture between black and white and color, the expression without words, etc. In order to increase the challenge, we use a single character and location, trying anyway not to bore audience. An analogical camera, and skates, at the house of the director, made the rest.