Javier Chillón

• Name — Javier Chillon Guerra • Born — 16 July 1977 • Birthplace — Madrid • Years Active — (artistic works): 2005- • Occupation — Film and video director, producer, screenwriter, animator, title designer, professor • Education — M.A. (Solent University), Licenciado • Alma Mater — Universidad Complutense de Madrid • Parents — Javier Chillon Sr. • Awards — Méliès d'Argent (2) • Website — http: www.javierchillon.com/

Javier Chillon was born on 16 July 1977 in Madrid. He attended the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and received a licenciate in audiovisual communication, pursuing further education at the Institute of Filmmaking at Solent University, Southampton, where he graduated with a Master of Arts. After his studies, he began working in the audiovisual world and graphic design.

• Illustration — Miguel Bosé in 2006

In 2005, Miguel Bosé released Velvetina, a 13-track audio CD as well as a special edition on Creative Zen which included video clips for each single. Together with Jaime Barnatán, Chillon co-directed the clip for the second track on the album, Aún Más. The video is set in a futuristic dystopia inspired by films like the early George Lucas film THX-1138 and novels such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Chillon has since directed three more music videos for Madrid-based bands Waldorf Histeria in 2010 (Dicen que es Satán and Fantasmas), and Delobos in 2018, No One Saves.

Making a living as an editor, Chillon undertook a two-and-a-half-year film project in his spare time obtaining various elements for free or cheaply through his family connections or friends. Chillon's first short narrative film, Die Schneider Krankheit (2008), is a science fiction mockumentary inspired by the "Hollywood look of the 50s", in particular, the B movies and newsreels from the United States. Shot on black and white Super 8 film, with a Spanish-language voice-over dubbed over another German one, with credits and most other onscreen text in German, the short film gives the impression of being a West German educational documentary film of the 1950s, concerning the effects of an extraterrestrial plague brought to Earth by a Soviet chimpanzee cosmonaut after its capsule crash landed near the border with East Germany in 1958. Financed entirely by Chillon himself, the short film was selected for more than 200 international film festivals and received more than 45 awards within the first two years of its release. Since the release of his first narrative film, Chillon has accumulated many credits as a poster or title designer on several films.

As well as the director's use of science fiction elements present in his music videos, the director's first two films share particular themes and plot elements, such as monstrous creatures resulting from "spatial" mutations or genetic manipulation, primarily derived from the science fiction B movies of the 1950s, the "atomic age"; as well as animated sequences, and "retro-inflected material". The plots of both films involve a returning astronaut.

• Videos • Miguel Bosé: Aún Más (2005) • Waldorf Histeria: Dicen que es Satán (2010) • Waldorf Histeria: Fantasmas (2010) • Delobos: No One Saves (2018) • Short films • Die Schneider Krankheit (2008) • Decapoda Shock (2011) • They Will All Die in Space (2015)