Javier Calleja
Javier Calleja seated by a window on set, looking down, a cinema camera on the floor at his feet
On the set of Heirloom. Photograph by @_gersonleiva

Javier Calleja

Director / Cinematographer / Producer / Production Designer / Photographer

He builds worlds for the screen. Born and raised in Mexico City and working in Los Angeles, he moves between directing, cinematography, producing and production design, and photographs what he finds in between.

Javi crouched beside a young cast member in a dinosaur costume, both throwing a rock signThe slate held up beside the camera in a courtyardThe miniature gas station from the forecourt sideCrew gathered at the car on the soundstage as the slate goes inCrew holding a patterned cloth beside the camera at the stage doorWide view of the dark soundstage with the crew in the doorway lightThe lighting grid overhead with paper lanternsCrew walking the floor in front of the green screenSetting the bedding prop on the empty stage floorA single lamp lit inside the bedding prop, crew looking onCamera monitor glowing in the dark as the lit prop is filmedRigging speed rail inside the picture carCamera operator rehearsing a move on the sliderThe picture car on stage with a monitor playing the background plateThe picture car beside a bounce frame on the soundstageTwo crew members in headsets conferring at a gateCrew gathered around the camera beside the picture carA monitor on the bonnet showing two actors inside the picture carA Steadicam operator following a cast member in a dinosaur costume through a libraryThe library reading room with crew working at the near deskJavi beside the camera operator, both crouched over the cameraThe miniature gas station built for the film, photographed on a turntableThe miniature gas station beside the production calendarBoom operator and crew beside the picture carThe stage door in full daylight, crew working in silhouette by the carLadders and a flag against the stage wallWide view of the green screen setup on the soundstageCrew at the production table by the open stage doorCamera crew watching the bedding prop being dressedThe stage in near darkness with one practical light on the floorOperator at the camera during the night setupCrew fitting the camera rig through the open car doorsLighting the picture car through a large diffusion frameThe picture car with its doors open under the stage lightsCamera mounted at the front of the picture car with the crew around itA camera assistant carrying a long lens across a car parkThe green screen stage seen from behind the cameraAn actor in the front seat of the picture car, seen past the monitorCrew filming in the reading room of a libraryTwo people at the console of a mixing stageFrame from Heirloom: a man in a white T-shirt lit by a screen in the darkFrame from Heirloom: people gathered around a lit table in the dark, seen from aboveJavi carrying the camera on a support rig beside the assistant camera, foliage behind themJavi at the camera under a flag on a hillside at golden hourCrew crossing a courtyard with the camera rig and boomThe boom operator beside a colonnade in warm evening lightCrew preparing a bounce board in a doorwayCrew walking through the colonnade as the slate is checkedFrame from Heirloom: two women lit by a laptop screenJavi at the camera on a tripod with the assistant camera leaning in above himJavi in profile behind the camera at duskJavi operating the camera on a slider beside a pool while the assistant pulls focusCrew working in a colonnade with the boom raisedA crew member on the radio beside the camera on the hillsideJavi seated in a courtyard garden wearing the camera support rigCrew gathered on a terrace with the boom overheadA dancer in the studio with the gimbal camera behind herDancers rehearsing in front of the studio mirrorTwo performers rehearsing on the hilltop with the camera crew around themThe boom operator in headphones against the skyTwo crew members checking a monitor beside the cameraThe kitchen location before the crew arrivesCrew working across the living room and kitchenCamera and cast at the kitchen islandThe crew filming the scene at the kitchen islandTwo dancers rehearsing with arms extended toward each otherWide view of the dancers gathered in the studioCrew filming two performers on the hilltop at duskA crew member in a cap looking up beside a light stand on the hillsideCamera and sound crew at work against a pale wallCamera cases on the kitchen island as the crew sets upBoom operator and crew around the table sceneBoom microphone held over the table sceneThe night setup in the kitchen under warm practical lightsA cave wall set with a gilt-framed painting above an altar dressed in red cloth and candlesA wooden cabin interior with beanbags and a window seatA sparse room set with a crucifix, a lamp and a small paintingA taco stand set under a blue canopy with a hand-painted menuA graffiti wall flat lit on a dark stage with the camera in silhouetteA market stall set hung with papel picado, a Mexican flag and devotional prints, smoke rising from the griddleA cabin interior dressed with bunting, ceramics and a workbenchA bedroom set with floral wallpaper while a crew member adjusts a lightMiniature headstones planted in the dirt in front of a houseA graffiti alley set at night with the crew at workA glasshouse standing among tall redwoodsA circular atrium with a skylight and two figures on the ramp belowA white atrium of stacked windows with a long shadow grid across the floorA rainbow behind a utility pole and a yellow houseA broad tree shading a park lawnTimber beams crossing a bright skylightA window frame in shadow opening onto green treesThe corner of a roof against a clear sky crossed by wiresA narrow stairwell climbing toward a lit landingAn old television set left on a pavement, leaves caught in the screenA red mushroom lamp glowing in a dark roomA tree and a kiosk below office towersA blue opening in iceA glass footbridge seen along its length, stairs overheadA glazed roof structure against a blue sky with cloudsA caged footbridge receding toward dry hillsThe buttressed roots of a large tree in a parkAn ochre wall and a stone wall under a rocky ridgeA building seen from below through a curved openingA wide street with a palm tree and the word STOP painted on the roadA terminal interior with tall glazing and a control tower outsideClouds seen from above at altitudeWater running from a chrome tapTwo skateboarders at the lip of a concrete bowl by the seaA figure walking away down a narrow stone tunnel
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