Caelum Vatnsdal

{{short description|Canadian writer and filmmaker (born 1970)}}

Caelum Vatnsdal (born 1970) is a Canadian writer and filmmaker.Randall King, [https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/special/ourcityourworld/iceland/happenstance-180668961.html "Icelandic Canadians are in the arts because they're artistic"]. Winnipeg Free Press, November 24, 2012. He is most noted for his books They Came From Within: A History of Canadian Horror Cinema (2004), a comprehensive study of Canadian horror films,David Pugliese, "The dead zone: History of horror films recalls a truly frightening era in Canada". Ottawa Citizen, October 31, 2004. and You Don’t Know Me, But You Love Me: The Lives of Dick Miller (2018), a biography of character actor Dick Miller.Adam Nayman, [https://quillandquire.com/review/you-dont-know-me-but-you-love-me-the-lives-of-dick-miller/ "You Don’t Know Me, But You Love Me: The Lives of Dick Miller"]. Quill & Quire, January 2019.

As a filmmaker he directed the feature film Black as Hell, Strong as Death, Sweet as Love (1998) and the Weakerthans documentary film We're the Weakerthans, We're from Winnipeg (2010),Vish Khanna, [https://exclaim.ca/music/article/were_weakerthans_were_from_winnipeg-directed_by_caelum_vatnsdal "We're the Weakerthans We're from Winnipeg"]. Exclaim!, October 4, 2011. as well as numerous short films. He has also acted in the films of Guy Maddin, including Careful, Odilon Redon, or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity, Sissy Boy Slap Party, Maldoror: Tygers, The Heart of the World and Cowards Bend the Knee.

He worked from 2008 to 2010 as editor of the Icelandic Canadian community newspaper Lögberg-Heimskringla.