Caelum was born and bred in that legendary hotbed of sub-polar culture, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Movies were an obsession from an early age, with titles like The Pug-Dog Crisis, Revenge of the Birds (a prize-winner) and Crawdads, the result.
He went to the University of Manitoba, followed by an apprenticeship
of sorts on Guy Maddin's film Careful. Caelum learned about the nuts
and bolts of filmmaking by working as a camera assistant in Winnipeg
and Toronto, while making his own films: shorts like Mr. Banana and
Kundalini Unbound, and a feature entitled Black as Hell, Strong as Death,
Sweet as Love.
Caelum
formed Mighty Kraken Films to make the feature, and has gone on to make
award-winning music videos for The Weakerthans and other Canadian bands.
Acting, cinematography, script-writing and book-writing (Kino Delirium:
The Films of Guy Maddin; They Came From Within: The History of Canadian
Horror Films.) are some of his other pursuits. He is currently working
on more music videos, documentary pieces for the CBC, and another feature
screenplay.
To summarize :
"...he makes movies and chews bubble gum, and he's fresh out of
bubble gum.
He's made one feature film so far, several music videos (mostly for
The Weakerthans), some short films and documentaries, and has written
a book about the films of Guy Maddin. All this and he still can't afford
a few more vowels for his last name."
