EDGAR PÊRA: RETROSPECTIVE - 13 NOV
13 NOV 2016
17h00 session:
The Day of the Musician | 5 min.Conceived as a workshop with students from the Film and Theatre School of Lisbon for a theatrical performance, the short film, The Day of the Musician, is inspired by a scathing text by Erik Satie on the process of bureaucratisation and functionalism of the world of artists. The film aims to present a hyperbolic and sarcastic portrait of the musician’s strictly regimented daily life. A carefully ordered day-to-day life that tends toward the absurd.
Fading World | 15 min.Fading World is based on an "aqua-realistic" interpretation of the book, Um Mundo Sobre o Outro Desbotado, by Maria Isabel Barreno. The film takes the form of a report of an alien invasion, covered by what appear to be hallucinations. The allegorical image of stirring the waters - which reflect and distort the old questions of reality and representation (also cinematographic) – in this case flow into a proposal to see things differently, which is also a nagging challenge to the established order and common sense.
Underground Gardens | 20 min.An animated film conceived in order to accompany a musical performance in tribute to Al Berto. Underground Gardens forges a dialogue with the lettrist experiences of the early twentieth century. The poet's words are deconstructed, spatially streamlined and subjected to a movement that permanently reorganizes and reconfigures them, exploring hidden meanings therein, and multiplying the possible interpretations of the text, accompanied by the music and vocals of Pacman, of the Portuguese band, Da Weasel.
Komédia Off | 13 min.Komedia Off consists of a set of fragments of the film that were projected simultaneously with the choreography designed by Paulo Ribeiro for the performance, "Comédia Off”, a playful work that explores the boundaries of dance and musical comedy. In tune with the work’s underlying irony, the film intensifies the elementary and physical language of the show, where the versatility of the performance and movement of the eight dancers is enhanced by the mechanisms of repetition and slow-motion that are inherent to the cinematic image.
22h00 session:
The Window (Don Juan Mix) | 87 min.The oscillatory movement of the Bica funicular in Lisbon underpins the ebbs and flows of The Window (Don Juan Mix), a vertiginous and cyclopean film, in which a kaleidoscopic complex of six different actors play the same character, Antonio, who interacts with six lovers, all personified by the same actress. But, the film asks who is the true Antonio? Antonio is a bohemian who lives in Bica, a character-inducer of popular Portuguese mythological stereotypes, such as marialvismo (Don Juans who frequented the bars and dark alleyways of Lisbon’s Mouraria district) or fado music, which unfolds across this film in an imaginative exercise of an identity crisis, and a crisis of the subject and reality.
THE DAY OF THE MUSICIAN, 1996 FADING WORLD, 1995 UNDERGROUND GARDENS, 1998 KOMÉDIA OFF, 2000 THE WINDOW (DON JUAN MIX), 2001
Original idea: Edgar Pêra, José Wallenstein Director: Joana Amorim, Nuno Barradas, Pedro Blanco, Cláudia Bravo, Sara Caixinhas, Maria João Cruz, Sílvia Diogo, Rossana Geada, António Ferreira, David Fonseca, Humberto Fonseca, João Levezinho, António Lopes, J. Lopes, Pedro Moreira, José Neves, Fernando Ramires, Paulo Rebelo, Tanja Wessels (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema)Text: Erik SatieSupervision, Editing: Edgar Pêra Cast: Paulo João, Ivo Canelas, Ana Pereira, Andreia Bento, Miguel Mendes, Alexandra Reis, Flávia Sardinha, Ana Borges, Ana Castro, António Fernandes, Filomena Oliveira, Teresa Santos, Melany, Paulo Neto, Peter Michael, Raquel DiasProduction: ESTC – Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema Format: Beta SP, black and white/colour, 5 min.
Director: Edgar PêraDirector of Photography: José Tiago Soundtrack: Nuno Rebelo Cast: Ana BustorffFormat: 35mm, colour, 15 min.
Original idea, director and editing: Edgar Pêra Assistant editors: Inês Henriques, Tiago Pereira, João GomesAnimation: Catarina Ramalho, Eva Mota, Daniel Neves, João Dias, Rita FrazãoCoordination: João Milagre Secretary: Paula FigueirinhaProduction: Akademya Lusoh-GalaktikaFormat: video colour, 20 min.
Original idea, editing and director: Edgar Pêra Music: Nuno Rebelo Choreography: Paulo Ribeiro Cast: Barbara Fuchs, Leonor Keil, Susana Queiroz, Boris Nahalka, Romulus Neagu, Wolfgang Maas, Christine Chu SchinaeLine production: AVANTI.PT Laurent Simões Format: video, colour, 13 min.
Scriptwriter and director: Edgar PêraMonologues: Edgar Pêra (as Mr. Ego), Lúcia Sigalho, Manuel João VieiraEditing: Edgar Pêra, Inês Henriques, Pedro Machado Director of Photography: Luís Branquinho Soundtrack: Tiago Lopes, Artur Cyaneto, Orkestra Lusoh-Galaktika Sound-mixing: Branko NeskovFados: "A Janelinha” and "Vou-me Embora” by Pedro Ayres Magalhães and Paulo Pedro Gonçalves, with guitar by António ChainhoCast: Lúcia Sigalho (Maria Fantasma, Júlia Bulldozzer, Sara York, Maria Española, Mirita Jacqueline Ginja, Maria de Fátima), Manuel João Vieira (António Santinho), Nuno Melo (António Choramingas), Miguel Borges (António Animal), João Didelet (António Levezito), José Wallenstein (António Tanguista), Nuno Bizarro (António Secretista)Production: Edgar Pêra, Madragoa Filmes Format: 35 mm, colour, 87 min.
The Day of the Musician | 5 min.Conceived as a workshop with students from the Film and Theatre School of Lisbon for a theatrical performance, the short film, The Day of the Musician, is inspired by a scathing text by Erik Satie on the process of bureaucratisation and functionalism of the world of artists. The film aims to present a hyperbolic and sarcastic portrait of the musician’s strictly regimented daily life. A carefully ordered day-to-day life that tends toward the absurd.
Fading World | 15 min.Fading World is based on an "aqua-realistic" interpretation of the book, Um Mundo Sobre o Outro Desbotado, by Maria Isabel Barreno. The film takes the form of a report of an alien invasion, covered by what appear to be hallucinations. The allegorical image of stirring the waters - which reflect and distort the old questions of reality and representation (also cinematographic) – in this case flow into a proposal to see things differently, which is also a nagging challenge to the established order and common sense.
Underground Gardens | 20 min.An animated film conceived in order to accompany a musical performance in tribute to Al Berto. Underground Gardens forges a dialogue with the lettrist experiences of the early twentieth century. The poet's words are deconstructed, spatially streamlined and subjected to a movement that permanently reorganizes and reconfigures them, exploring hidden meanings therein, and multiplying the possible interpretations of the text, accompanied by the music and vocals of Pacman, of the Portuguese band, Da Weasel.
Komédia Off | 13 min.Komedia Off consists of a set of fragments of the film that were projected simultaneously with the choreography designed by Paulo Ribeiro for the performance, "Comédia Off”, a playful work that explores the boundaries of dance and musical comedy. In tune with the work’s underlying irony, the film intensifies the elementary and physical language of the show, where the versatility of the performance and movement of the eight dancers is enhanced by the mechanisms of repetition and slow-motion that are inherent to the cinematic image.
22h00 session:
The Window (Don Juan Mix) | 87 min.The oscillatory movement of the Bica funicular in Lisbon underpins the ebbs and flows of The Window (Don Juan Mix), a vertiginous and cyclopean film, in which a kaleidoscopic complex of six different actors play the same character, Antonio, who interacts with six lovers, all personified by the same actress. But, the film asks who is the true Antonio? Antonio is a bohemian who lives in Bica, a character-inducer of popular Portuguese mythological stereotypes, such as marialvismo (Don Juans who frequented the bars and dark alleyways of Lisbon’s Mouraria district) or fado music, which unfolds across this film in an imaginative exercise of an identity crisis, and a crisis of the subject and reality.
THE DAY OF THE MUSICIAN, 1996 FADING WORLD, 1995 UNDERGROUND GARDENS, 1998 KOMÉDIA OFF, 2000 THE WINDOW (DON JUAN MIX), 2001
Original idea: Edgar Pêra, José Wallenstein Director: Joana Amorim, Nuno Barradas, Pedro Blanco, Cláudia Bravo, Sara Caixinhas, Maria João Cruz, Sílvia Diogo, Rossana Geada, António Ferreira, David Fonseca, Humberto Fonseca, João Levezinho, António Lopes, J. Lopes, Pedro Moreira, José Neves, Fernando Ramires, Paulo Rebelo, Tanja Wessels (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema)Text: Erik SatieSupervision, Editing: Edgar Pêra Cast: Paulo João, Ivo Canelas, Ana Pereira, Andreia Bento, Miguel Mendes, Alexandra Reis, Flávia Sardinha, Ana Borges, Ana Castro, António Fernandes, Filomena Oliveira, Teresa Santos, Melany, Paulo Neto, Peter Michael, Raquel DiasProduction: ESTC – Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema Format: Beta SP, black and white/colour, 5 min.
Director: Edgar PêraDirector of Photography: José Tiago Soundtrack: Nuno Rebelo Cast: Ana BustorffFormat: 35mm, colour, 15 min.
Original idea, director and editing: Edgar Pêra Assistant editors: Inês Henriques, Tiago Pereira, João GomesAnimation: Catarina Ramalho, Eva Mota, Daniel Neves, João Dias, Rita FrazãoCoordination: João Milagre Secretary: Paula FigueirinhaProduction: Akademya Lusoh-GalaktikaFormat: video colour, 20 min.
Original idea, editing and director: Edgar Pêra Music: Nuno Rebelo Choreography: Paulo Ribeiro Cast: Barbara Fuchs, Leonor Keil, Susana Queiroz, Boris Nahalka, Romulus Neagu, Wolfgang Maas, Christine Chu SchinaeLine production: AVANTI.PT Laurent Simões Format: video, colour, 13 min.
Scriptwriter and director: Edgar PêraMonologues: Edgar Pêra (as Mr. Ego), Lúcia Sigalho, Manuel João VieiraEditing: Edgar Pêra, Inês Henriques, Pedro Machado Director of Photography: Luís Branquinho Soundtrack: Tiago Lopes, Artur Cyaneto, Orkestra Lusoh-Galaktika Sound-mixing: Branko NeskovFados: "A Janelinha” and "Vou-me Embora” by Pedro Ayres Magalhães and Paulo Pedro Gonçalves, with guitar by António ChainhoCast: Lúcia Sigalho (Maria Fantasma, Júlia Bulldozzer, Sara York, Maria Española, Mirita Jacqueline Ginja, Maria de Fátima), Manuel João Vieira (António Santinho), Nuno Melo (António Choramingas), Miguel Borges (António Animal), João Didelet (António Levezito), José Wallenstein (António Tanguista), Nuno Bizarro (António Secretista)Production: Edgar Pêra, Madragoa Filmes Format: 35 mm, colour, 87 min.
