Cinema: Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
23 MAR 2014
"Ennui Ennui" (34 min.), Gabriel Abrantes
"A History of Mutual Respect" (24 min.), Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
Access: subject to free ticket given at the Reception of the Museum
Ennui Ennui
Fiction | 2013 | 33 Min. | S-16 mm transferred to DCP
Languages: French, Dari and English| English subtitles
This dark comedy depicts the current military conflict in Afghanistan with slapstick comedy. Giselle, French ambassadress to Afghanistan, and her daughter Cleo, visit a Kuchi nomad camp to negotiate the tribe’s disarmament. While they are caught up in absurd and complex negotiations, a female warlord Bibi Ayesha and her half-witted son Mal Faq’tar approach the camp to kidnap the princess Cher.
Ennui Ennui is about tribal bride trading, Hillary Clinton’s selfie web presence, the drone that calls Obama ‘daddy’, the chronic virginity of Libraries without Borders volunteers, and airborne piglets. It’s a comedy, in French, Dari and English.
A History of Mutual Respect
Fiction | 2010 | 24 Min. | S-16 mm transferred to 35 mm
Languages: English, Spanish and Portugueses | Portuguese subtitles
When two boys leave on a philosophical journey and only one is prepared for it, their worlds will part forever.
Golden Leopard winner of LOCARNO 2010 and Best Portuguese Short Film Award at INDIELISBOA 2010, A HISTORY OF MUTUAL RESPECT is a philosophical and sensual existential journey, ‘an unclassifiable eccentric and political film, reminding of the most daring works of Glauber Rocha. The two protagonists (played by the two authors) go to Latin America in search of third-world exotism and of a "pure” and "clean” sexuality. During this metaphorical journey, a universe of lost innocence and disenchantment takes shape, where no revolutionary or humanist utopia is allowed. The Western European heros’ cynicism mirrors the phantasm of wealth and comfort of the beautiful Brazilian girl they meet and try to seduce in the jungle.’
This cinema projection is a related activity to the exhibition "12 Contemporâneos: Estados Presentes"
Ennui Ennui A History of Mutual Respect Gabriel Abrantes Fiction | 2013 | 33 Min. | S-16 mm transferred to DCP
Languages: French, Dari and English | English subtitles
Director and screenplay: Gabriel Abrantes
Photography: Simon Roca
Sound: Philippe Deschamps
Editing: Aël Dallier Vega
Music: Ulysse Klotz
Featuring: Edith Scob, Laëtitia Dosch, Omid Rawendah, Breshna Bahar, Esther Garrel, Aref Banuhar, Asif Mawdoodi, Stephan Rizon
Producer: Justin Taurand
Production: Les Films du Bélier
Fiction | 2010 | 24 Min. | S-16 mm transferred to 35 mm
Languages: English, Spanish and Portugueses | Portuguese subtitles
Director of photography: Natxo Checa
Directors, screenplay and editing: Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt in collaboration with Natxo Checa
Featuring: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, Joana Nascimento, Alcina Abrantes, Natxo Checa, Edivaldo Carlos, Rigoberto Esquivel, Mati Diop
Producers: Gabriel Abrantes, Natxo Checa & ZDB
Associate producer: Periferia Filmes / João Trabulo
Produced by A Mutual Respect Gabriel Abrantes (1984, North Carolina, USA) lives and works in Lisbon.
In 2006 he received his BA in Cinema and Visual Arts at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York.
He also studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 2005-06, and at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France, in 2007.
In 2010, Abrantes co-founded the film production company A Mutual Respect. His films have been featured in exhibitions including ‘List Projects: Gabriel Abrantes’, MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge, MA, USA, 2013), ‘Dinasty’, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2010) and ‘Reset’, Fondation d’Enterprise Ricard (Paris, 2010). In 2010, he had a retrospective exhibition at Centro Cultural Vila Flor (Guimarães, Portugal).
Abrantes is the winner of several prizes, including the EDP Prize (2009), the FNAC Novos Talentos Prize (Indie Festival, Lisbon, 2009) and the Golden Leopard for Best International Short Film (Locarno Film Festival, 2010). "Serralves Ecossistema Criativo" Project co-financed by:
"A History of Mutual Respect" (24 min.), Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
Access: subject to free ticket given at the Reception of the Museum
Ennui Ennui
Fiction | 2013 | 33 Min. | S-16 mm transferred to DCP
Languages: French, Dari and English| English subtitles
This dark comedy depicts the current military conflict in Afghanistan with slapstick comedy. Giselle, French ambassadress to Afghanistan, and her daughter Cleo, visit a Kuchi nomad camp to negotiate the tribe’s disarmament. While they are caught up in absurd and complex negotiations, a female warlord Bibi Ayesha and her half-witted son Mal Faq’tar approach the camp to kidnap the princess Cher.
Ennui Ennui is about tribal bride trading, Hillary Clinton’s selfie web presence, the drone that calls Obama ‘daddy’, the chronic virginity of Libraries without Borders volunteers, and airborne piglets. It’s a comedy, in French, Dari and English.
A History of Mutual Respect
Fiction | 2010 | 24 Min. | S-16 mm transferred to 35 mm
Languages: English, Spanish and Portugueses | Portuguese subtitles
When two boys leave on a philosophical journey and only one is prepared for it, their worlds will part forever.
Golden Leopard winner of LOCARNO 2010 and Best Portuguese Short Film Award at INDIELISBOA 2010, A HISTORY OF MUTUAL RESPECT is a philosophical and sensual existential journey, ‘an unclassifiable eccentric and political film, reminding of the most daring works of Glauber Rocha. The two protagonists (played by the two authors) go to Latin America in search of third-world exotism and of a "pure” and "clean” sexuality. During this metaphorical journey, a universe of lost innocence and disenchantment takes shape, where no revolutionary or humanist utopia is allowed. The Western European heros’ cynicism mirrors the phantasm of wealth and comfort of the beautiful Brazilian girl they meet and try to seduce in the jungle.’
This cinema projection is a related activity to the exhibition "12 Contemporâneos: Estados Presentes"
Ennui Ennui A History of Mutual Respect Gabriel Abrantes Fiction | 2013 | 33 Min. | S-16 mm transferred to DCP
Languages: French, Dari and English | English subtitles
Director and screenplay: Gabriel Abrantes
Photography: Simon Roca
Sound: Philippe Deschamps
Editing: Aël Dallier Vega
Music: Ulysse Klotz
Featuring: Edith Scob, Laëtitia Dosch, Omid Rawendah, Breshna Bahar, Esther Garrel, Aref Banuhar, Asif Mawdoodi, Stephan Rizon
Producer: Justin Taurand
Production: Les Films du Bélier
Fiction | 2010 | 24 Min. | S-16 mm transferred to 35 mm
Languages: English, Spanish and Portugueses | Portuguese subtitles
Director of photography: Natxo Checa
Directors, screenplay and editing: Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt in collaboration with Natxo Checa
Featuring: Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, Joana Nascimento, Alcina Abrantes, Natxo Checa, Edivaldo Carlos, Rigoberto Esquivel, Mati Diop
Producers: Gabriel Abrantes, Natxo Checa & ZDB
Associate producer: Periferia Filmes / João Trabulo
Produced by A Mutual Respect Gabriel Abrantes (1984, North Carolina, USA) lives and works in Lisbon.
In 2006 he received his BA in Cinema and Visual Arts at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York.
He also studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 2005-06, and at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France, in 2007.
In 2010, Abrantes co-founded the film production company A Mutual Respect. His films have been featured in exhibitions including ‘List Projects: Gabriel Abrantes’, MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge, MA, USA, 2013), ‘Dinasty’, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2010) and ‘Reset’, Fondation d’Enterprise Ricard (Paris, 2010). In 2010, he had a retrospective exhibition at Centro Cultural Vila Flor (Guimarães, Portugal).
Abrantes is the winner of several prizes, including the EDP Prize (2009), the FNAC Novos Talentos Prize (Indie Festival, Lisbon, 2009) and the Golden Leopard for Best International Short Film (Locarno Film Festival, 2010). "Serralves Ecossistema Criativo" Project co-financed by:
