Bianca Calandra

Born in Sydney (Australia), now based in the south of France.

Bianca Calandra is a French-Australian visual artist/musician working in the realms of video, animation, music and painting to create dark, dystopian, gothic and science fiction inspired universes.

She studied design and film making in Sydney and has exhibited in Australia, Germany and France.

She is currently working on a short, independent, science fiction film.

She is also the guitarist/vocalist in French ethereal darkwave duo ‘Machine est mon Coeur’ who have released one self-titled EP (2007), and one LP 'Dystopium' (2015). They have played in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Australia.

She has also released one solo EP 'Elevate the Everyday Ordinary' as B.Calandra (2004).

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Bianca has directed all of Machine est mon Coeur's music videos to date,

as well as creating their album covers and photos.

In 2019, 'Machine est mon Coeur' film clips have been officially selected to screen at film festivals in

the USA, Norway, Finland, Russia, Romania, Greece, Poland, Croatia, Brazil, Colombia and Portugal.

 

In 2019, her animation 'Trainwreck' won 'Best experimental film' at the

'Imagine This Women’s International Film Festival' in New York, USA.