Reality fractures. Colors bleed. Someone forgot their meds again.
Through the eyes of a young girl suffering from mental illness, 'Caldera' glimpses into a world of psychosis and explores a world of ambiguous reality and the nature of life and death.
Direction
Viera's father's paintings brought to hallucinatory motion.
Cinematography
Every frame looks like a psychotic episode rendered in oil.
Sound
The hum and crackle of a mind coming unglued.
Director
Evan Viera
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Evan Viera based the film on his father Roger's paintings and his own experiences with a family member's mental illness, making the 'unreliable narrator' visually literal.
The pharmaceutical cityscape was rotoscoped from actual Boston locations, grounding the fantasy in recognizable institutional architecture.
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