25 de Abril – Uma aventura para a demokracya
What has happened to the Carnation Revolution’s dreams and aspirations? Does cinema have the answer – and will we like it?
16'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
"again i dreamt of the man / who bends over you / his hands / in your vagina / he touches pushes presses on upwards / reaches your heart / with his nails rips it out / pulls it with a fishing line / wraps it in a cloth / takes it away / the blood doesn’t stop / you are nearly dead / gasping / but you don’t die // you are right / i wouldn’t be able / to satisfy you as intensely / as the man of your dreams"
Welcome to the world of Alberto Pimenta: experimental poet, inspired translator (of Thomas Bernhard, for example), fearless performance artist (who made happenings happen in Portugal), merry porn proselytizer, provocateur with a cause and, as the only possible logical sum total of all this, political dissenter at loggerheads with any status quo. 24 years of recordings distilled into 75’ of pure cinema.
IFFR 2019
Programme IFFR 2019
An overdue tribute to one of world cinema's most unpredictable voices: Edgar Pêra, sound-image philosopher, performer, natural born rebel, eternal modernist, political satirist extraordinaire.
Read more about this programmeWhat has happened to the Carnation Revolution’s dreams and aspirations? Does cinema have the answer – and will we like it?
16'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
On the absurdities of a country riddled with economic crisis trying to look powerful and important by way of architectural grand-standing.
23'
Portugal
IFFR 2019
A Dracula-esque nobleman reigns with terror over his fiefdom's commoners. Horror meets musical comedy. Disquieting political allegory.
91'
Portugal
IFFR 2019