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Edgar Henrique Clemente Pêra (born November 19, 1960 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese film director .
Life
Edgar Pêra dropped out of his psychology studies in 1981 to study at the film school of the National Conservatory. After graduating in 1984, he wrote for cinema, television and radio, but also for newspapers and advertising agencies. With José Nascimento he wrote the screenplays for Repórter X (1986) and Mar á vista (Eng .: "Sea in Sight", 1988), and provided the idea for Manuel Mozos ' TV film Um Passo, Outro Passo e Depois ... (1989) . After various video clips and radio formats, and his short film debut at the Fantasporto film festival in 1990, he made his first feature film in 1991.
His subsequent films caught the attention of the cinema audience with their idiosyncratic narrative form. For example, in the confusing crime parody A Janela (Maryalva Mix) (2001), influenced by silent films as well as video clips and documentaries , an actress plays 6 different women who have a relationship to the Casanova of the Bica district, which in turn is embodied by 6 different actors (including the actor, musician and presidential candidate Manuel João Vieira )
Since then, his unorthodox production methods and the abundance of different works and formats have made it difficult to keep a complete filmography and to always assign the works correctly. Pêra shoots many projects at the same time and reworks some of the material that has already been published, from video clips to feature films to documentaries. He produces exclusive short films for music festivals, shoots Fado Westerns, and wins awards for his documentaries that are shown internationally, for example at IndieLisboa for the film about Carlos Paredes .
reception
Pêra is considered to be an innovative director who likes to experiment and who is able to give Portuguese cinema new impulses, also internationally. He is influenced by pop culture and comics, which he also writes and draws himself. This explains the popularity of his films, especially among younger cineastes and friends of cult films , but also the interest of film scholars in his varied and creative film language. The numerous retrospectives testify to the increased international attention paid to Pêra's films
Filmography
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literature
- Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989-2003 Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, ISBN 972-21-1763-7
- A.Murtinheira & I. Metzeltin “History of Portuguese Cinema” 1st edition, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010 ISBN 978-3-7069-0590-9
Web links
- Edgar Pêra in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website (Portuguese, English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A.Murtinheira & I. Metzeltin "History of Portuguese Cinema" 1st edition, Praesens Verlag, Vienna 2010, page 150
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989-2003 1st edition, Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, page 475
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:
- ↑ http://www.art-u.it/Perform.htm
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ WORLD WIDE VIDEO FESTIVAL SOLO: EDGAR PÊRA
- ↑ Cinema Português ( Memento from July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from March 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.portugalconvida.net/cat/noticia.php?&id=207
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pera, Edgar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pêra, Edgar Henrique Clemente (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon |