EDGAR PÊRA: RETROSPECTIVE - 16 DEZ

Lisbon Revisited | 66 min.In a dreamlike tour of Lisbon, accompanied by the words of Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon Revisited offers a portrait of the city, linking it to a new imaginary, through visual manipulation of some of its emblematic sites and natural elements. Based on a sound horizon composed of voices, music and text, this film overlaps abstraction and tangible forms, using 3D techniques to work with the texture and visual depth of the image (and of reality, that the film represents and uses as a referent), questioning, in the same voyeuristic gesture, the conventional dichotomy between fiction to non-fiction. If cinema is a tool for reading and writing about the world - apparently opposing processes, which are nonetheless complementary (of even symbiotic) - Lisbon Revisited revisits films such as The City of Cassiano (1991) and Lisboa-Bon 345 Years after the Earthquake (2000), and clearly demonstrates that 3D, with all its potential, must be understood as an inevitable step in Edgar Pêra’s authorial journey.
LISBON REVISITED, 2014
Original idea, director and editing: Edgar Pêra  Texts: Fernando PessoaSoundtrack: Artur Cyanetto, Pedro GóisDirector of Photography: Edgar Pêra, Luís BranquinhoMusic: Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Gustav Mahler, Kino-Orquestra Alfacinha, Ana Isabel DiasSound: Artur Cyanetto, Pedro GóisVoices: Keith Esher Davies (Bernardo Soares), Nuno Melo (Ricardo Reis/Álvaro de Campos), Maya Booth (Margareth Mansell), Miguel Borges (Pessoa/Barão de Teive), Jonathan Weightman (Charles Anon/Alexander Search), Marina Albuquerque (Ofélia/Neera), Rui Santos (Alberto Caeiro), Amarante Abramovici (Lídia), Cláudia Clemente (Chloé), Henrique Clemente Pêra (Íbis), Post-production 3D: Cláudio VasquesProduction: Rodrigo Areias / Bando à ParteFormat: video 3D, colour, 66 min.