Antonio de Macedo
António Luiz Ernesto de Macedo (born July 5, 1931 in Lisbon ; † October 5, 2017 there ) was a Portuguese director , screenwriter , film editor , playwright and writer.
Life
Born on July 5, 1931 in Lisbon, he attended school here. After graduating from high school, he enrolled at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes art school , where he completed a degree in architecture. As a student he worked as a draftsman for the Câmara Municipal , the city administration of Lisbon, where he worked as an architect after finishing his studies. Since he was 16, he turned 8 mm and 16 mm films , one of which (his ode Triunfal , an 8-mm film adaptation of Fernando Pessoa -Gedichtes) earned his first commissioned work, a commercial documentary for the brewery Central de Cervejas called Verão Coincidente (German about: Simultaneous summer). As a result, he made a number of short films. When the producer António da Cunha Telles enabled him to film Fernando Namora's novel Domingo à Tarde in 1964 , he gave up his profession as an architect and from then on devoted himself only to film and writing. The film received a Diploma de Merito Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1965 . After his own script based on an Alexandre O'Neill poem, and with music from the Quinteto Académico , he completed the thriller Sete Balas Para Selma (English: seven balls for Selma) in 1967 .
Macedo was one of the co-founders of the pioneering film cooperative Centro Português de Cinema (CPC, 1970) and the Cinequanon cooperative (1974) and thus one of the directors of Novo Cinema , the new Portuguese film . He shot a series of documentaries for the public television of the RTP , about the independence of Mozambique in 1975. One of his most important feature films of this phase was A Promessa (Eng .: The Promise), a fishing drama shot in the coastal town of Figueira da Foz , in which Michel Giacometti was an advisor. The film, based on a play by Bernardo Santareno , became the CPC's most commercially successful work and was also shown at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival . As Horas de Maria (Eng .: The Hours of Mary), a critical film about a dying woman who waits in vain for the support of Mother Mary and in which the devotion to Mary , in particular the , was also relatively successful, not least thanks to its high-profile polemic Fátima cult, is questioned. Filmed in the climate of progressive social upheaval in Portugal after the Carnation Revolution (1974), the film was only released in 1979 and has now provoked a violent wave of protests from conservative and Christian sides, which can also be seen in demonstrations in front of the cinemas and stones thrown into shop windows on the movie poster and on visitors. In 1975 Fátima Story , a film about the Fátima theme, caused initial controversies, although not yet as intense.
He then produced documentaries, especially for television, for example on the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Instituto Superior Técnico Campus (1985), but also multi-part films and some feature films. For some of his films, which now often dealt with the supernatural, he was nominated for various film awards.
He also devoted himself to the theater. In 1983 he directed O Marinheiro (Eng .: The Sailor, by Fernando Pessoa) at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II , and in 1988 he won the Almeida Garrett Prize for new plays for O Osso de Mafoma (Eng .: The Bone of Mafoma ).
Since the 1990s, Macedo has appeared less as a director and more often as a writer. For this he became a university professor for image analysis ( Universidade Lusófona , Lisbon) and for film directing ( Universidade Moderna , Lisbon). One reason for the decline in directing activity was the continuing lack of support from the state film institute ICAM or ICA .
In 1996 he shot another documentary with a religious reference with Santo António de Todo o Mundo (Eng .: Saint Anthony of the whole world). Macedo also maintained a website on which he joined the esoteric devoted.
In 2000, a book about the work of António de Macedo was published as a joint effort between the Dom Quixote publishing house and the SPA publishing house . In 2001 Macedo was honored for his life's work at the Figueira da Foz film festival. In 2006 he obtained a doctorate in sociology with a cultural sociology thesis at the Universidade Nova in Lisbon. In June and July 2012, the state film museum, the Cinemateca Portuguesa , organized a comprehensive series of films on Macedo's work, partly in the presence of the latter.
Filmography
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Primary literature
- A Evolução Estética do Cinema. Clube Bibliográfico Editex, Lisbon 1959/1960 (on aesthetics in the cinema)
- Da Essência da Liberdade. Sociedade de Expansão Cultural, Lisbon 1961 (philosophical text)
- As Horas de Maria. Cinequanon, Lisbon 1974 (screenplay)
- A pomba. Editorial Ulmeiro, Lisbon 1983 (play)
- A Nova Ilusão. SPA , Lisbon 1984 (play)
- O Osso de Mafoma. SPA, Lisbon 1990 (play)
- O Limite de Rudzky. Editorial Caminho , Lisbon 1992 (science fiction stories)
- Contos de Androthélys. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1993 (novel)
- Sulphira & Lucyphur. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1995 (novel)
- A Sonata de Cristal. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1996 (novel)
- Erotosofia. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1998 (novel)
- As Furtivas Pegadas da Serpente. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2004
Secondary literature
- José de Matos-Cruz: António de Macedo - Cinema e Viragem de um Época. SPA / Dom Quixote, Lisbon 2000
Web links
- António de Macedo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- António de Macedo at the Instituto Camões
- Literature by and about António de Macedo in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry in the online lexicon Infopédia of the Porto Editora (Portuguese)
- Comprehensive dossier António de Macedo ( Memento from January 23, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) at the Azores Film Festival (Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cineasta António de Macedo morre aos 86 anos , accessed on October 8, 2017
- ^ Alcides Murtinheira, Igor Metzeltin: History of the Portuguese cinema. 1st edition, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, page 94f ( ISBN 978-3-7069-0590-9 )
- ↑ www.triplov.com , accessed October 23, 2012
- ^ Alcides Murtinheira, Igor Metzeltin: History of the Portuguese cinema. 1st edition, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, page 113f ( ISBN 978-3-7069-0590-9 )
- ↑ www.uni-hamburg.de (port.), Accessed on October 23, 2012
- ↑ www.starscolor.com , accessed October 23, 2012
- ^ Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962-1988. 1st edition, Editorial Caminho , Lisbon 1989, page 235ff. ( ISBN 972-21-0446-2 )
- ^ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989-2003. 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, page 357. ( ISBN 972-21-1763-7 )
- ↑ www.paginasesotericas.tripod.com , accessed October 23, 2012
- ↑ www.cvc.instituto-camoes.pt , accessed on October 23, 2012
- ↑ www.saidadeemergencia.com , accessed October 23, 2012
- ↑ http://apr-realizadores.com/exib/?p=1722 (link not available)
- ↑ http://www.cinemateca.pt/Programacao/Anexos/divulgacao_julho.aspx (link not available)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Macedo, Antonio de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Macedo, António Luiz Ernesto de (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese director, university professor and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon , Portugal |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th October 2017 |
| Place of death | Lisbon , Portugal |