Jorge Caballero
Writing
Biography
Filmmaker, researcher, and author specialized in AI-driven storytelling. He holds a PhD cum laude from UPF and co-directs the postgraduate program in Film and Algorithms at UAB. His films have won Colombia’s National Documentary Award and have been showcased and awarded at festivals like Rotterdam, IDFA, SXSW, Visions du Réel, and HotDocs, among others, and co-produced and broadcast by platforms and networks including ARTE, YLE, TV3, RTS, and Discovery. His latest book, Artificial Imagination, explores the future of cinema in the algorithmic age.
Known For
PATIENT is the word that defines us as we follow medical instructions or have to stay calm while we wait. In Colombia, a country where the harsh health system requires its users to face absurd bureaucratic obstacles to access its services, PATIENT is not only the one who has the disease, but also the one in the daily struggle ensuring that his or her loved one receives all necessary needs. Nubia is a PATIENT, a mother who, despite living with the anguish of possibly losing her daughter to an aggressive cancer, firmly gets to overcome the labyrinths established by the Health System processes upon which her daughter's life depends.
Patient
A damaged film shot in 1982 in a Latin American country documents the violence that took place on 9 May that year. Beneath its apparent banality, the film raises suspicions of manipulation of the truth.
09/05/1982
A portrait of the daily life of justice, the day-to-day petty crime in Bogotá, a city accustomed to violence and inequality. Each story, a trifle, a social reality that Colombian law always tries to punish.
Bagatela
Every day, in the maternity wards of Bogota's public hospitals, hundreds of women give birth to their children. Case by case, birth give birth, a social reality is revealed from each individual situation. To expect, to fulfill, to want, to defend, to accept and to resist, verbs that make up this direct and demystified portrait of the hospital birth and that reflect an essential part of a country.
Nacer
The story of Jonas Vogulys, who runs the marriage agency "Vogulys". It is the oldest in Colombia and Latin America, but after 10,152 marriages, the agency is declining due to online dating.
Vogulys
With the Colombian government making little effort to come up with concrete proposals to tackle the healthcare crisis triggered by Covid-19 and the Colombian parliament passing utterly incomprehensible bills on the issue, Jorge Caballero Ramos decided to take matters into his own hands by using AI to create a new, fictional member of the Colombian Senate: Dora Sena. Dora's mission is to spark debate in the middle of a pandemic. But can an AI machine really write effective parliamentary bills for dystopian situations?