CINEMATOGRAPHER CAYETANO GONZALEZ
My cinematography style has a natural feel, I work on visuals that refer to artists I have always admired.
In 2006 I studied Film in Valencia, and in that time everything we did was recorded on tapes, and the cinematic quality I was searching for was unattainable. I slowly began learning how to use different cameras and I knew I had found my calling. Before even realizing it I was already working as a photographer, but still felt I needed to expand my knowledge of Art to extend my perspective. I studied Fine Arts, and later moved to Barcelona to study a Masters's in Cinematography in ESCAC (Superior School of Cinema of Catalonia). Since then I've been based in Barcelona and my work is focused mainly on Directing and Cinematography,
Your greatest inspirations or influences?
Nature, film, paintings, photography, traveling… inspiration is all around us. It's your mind that has to be open and curious enough to see it. I am also inspired by beauty, and for me, beauty has to be undiscovered, different, and special.
Tell us a bit about your creative process?
My work is challenging and continuously evolving. Everything I do is for a reason, everything is thought, out and precise. But in this control, there’s always room for freedom, for the characters to express themselves. There’s something very personal from every model or actor/actress I’ve worked with, and I intend to keep it this way. Most of the time my creative process begins with people and not characters. It’s like merging my dream with someone else's dream and creating a story from there. It’s beautiful.
How has this year changed your creativity or how you see the world changing moving forward?
I centered the past years on working for clients as a director and cinematographer, only doing my personal work as a photographer. Now I’m concentrating on my personal work as a Director and DP. Developing projects that fulfill me or that will take me where I want to go. It’s all about freedom and creativity. But that doesn’t mean I will stop taking photographs, It’s just that I will focus on other aspects.
Anything else you'd like to share?
Yes, I’d like to support all the photographers and cinematographers out there that are trying to find their way in this world. Let’s value effort and hard work, and not so much to results and success. Success has to do with so many little things that are out of our reach, or not always in one’s control. Value and believe in your self worth, on hard work, freedom and personality, and don’t care so much about what other people think.
Here’s the trailer on my new short film Adel: