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.

His brother is drummer Mario Calire.

Jamie and his youngest brother Dyami legally changed the spelling of their last names from "Calire" to "Caliri" to reflect the original Italian spelling.

Since 1993, he and his software engineer brother Dyami Caliri have collaborated to create stop motion animation software. In 2005, they developed Dragonframe.[3]

Notable works

Music videos

Title sequences

Short films

  • The Escapist v.s. The Iron Gauntlet, 2006
  • The Sun and the Seed, 2008[18]

Album art

References

  1. "Dragon" premiered during Super Bowl XL.
  2. Caliri, Jamie (8 March 2010). "The Escapist v.s. The Iron Gauntlet" via Vimeo.
  3. "About Us - Dragonframe". dragonframe.com.
  4. "Music – Music News, New Songs, Videos, Music Shows and Playlists from MTV". www.mtv.com.
  5. "Complete List of Academy Voter Picks". Los Angeles Times. January 7, 1998. p. 15. Archived from the original on July 1, 2012. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  6. "Music – Music News, New Songs, Videos, Music Shows and Playlists from MTV". www.mtv.com.
  7. "Music – Music News, New Songs, Videos, Music Shows and Playlists from MTV". www.mtv.com.
  8. "Feature of the Week". www.mtv.com. Archived from the original on 2001-10-31.
  9. "Music – Music News, New Songs, Videos, Music Shows and Playlists from MTV". www.mtv.com.
  10. "black lab :: time ago :: video". www.blacklabworld.com.
  11. "Cherry Poppin' Daddies Talk About Getting Surreal In New Video". MTV. 1998-08-03.
  12. "Media". Marcyplayground.com. Archived from the original on 2013-07-09. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  13. "Jamie Caliri: The Shins "The Rifle's Spiral"". motionographer.com. 18 April 2012.
  14. "Movies". The New York Times.
  15. Vlaanderen, Remco. "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events title sequence - Watch the Titles". www.watchthetitles.com.
  16. Vlaanderen, Remco. "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa title sequence - Watch the Titles". www.watchthetitles.com.
  17. Vlaanderen, Remco. "United States of Tara title sequence - Watch the Titles". www.watchthetitles.com.
  18. "Jamie Caliri – The Sun and the Seed on No Fat Clips!!!". Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  19. 1 2 3 "Jamie Caliri - Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic.
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