António Campos (director)
António Pereira Campos (born May 29, 1922 in Leiria , † March 8, 1999 in Figueira da Foz ) was a Portuguese director .
Life
He started acting at the Grupo Dramático Joaquim Leitão amateur theater in his hometown of Leiria. He also began making films on 8mm film . His first documented film is O Rio Liz from 1957, a portrait of the Lis River . From then on, the documentary film was his main focus as a director.
With a grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation , he completed courses in London in 1961 . From 1970 to 77 he was an employee of the foundation, for which he also made various documentaries during that time. He was one of the co-founders of the Novo Cinema and was considered to be the innovator of Portuguese documentary film. In 1978 he shot his first feature film , Histórias Selvagens ("Wild Stories") , which, however, was not released on a commercial basis.
At the beginning of the 1990s, Campos was offered greater production opportunities for the first time, and in 1992 he shot Terra Fria (“Cold Land”), his only feature film that was released in cinemas on a commercial basis. It premiered on December 1, 1995 and was unsuccessful.
In the 1990s, Campos received various honors, including internationally. Ten of his films were shown at the 1994 La Rochelle Festival . As part of the Lumière project of the European MEDIA program, Campos' early 8 mm works were restored and are now archived as 35 mm copies in the ANIM center of the Portuguese Film Museum, the Cinemateca Portuguesa . Today he is considered to be the innovator of Portuguese documentary film and the founder of an ethnographic film in the country.
In 1999 Campos died in the seaside resort of Figueira da Foz . On the tenth anniversary of his death, a retrospective of his work was shown in the festival cinema Cinema São Jorge , underlining his status as a documentary filmmaker.
Filmography
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Web links
- António Campos in the Internet Movie Database (English)
literature
- Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do cinema português 1962 - 1988. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1988, ISBN 972-21-0446-2 .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do cinema português 1962 - 1988. 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, page 72.
- ↑ work and short biography of António Campos (port.) Website Instituto Camões , accessed 11 June 2012 Google
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do cinema português 1989 - 2003. 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, page 112f.
- ↑ The "Etnocinema" of António Campos in the retrospective, February 2009 (port.) ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Público newspaper , accessed on June 11, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Campos, Antonio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Campos, António Pereira (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leiria , Portugal |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1999 |
| Place of death | Figueira da Foz , Portugal |