Mário Peixoto
Still: LimiteFilmmaker Mário PEIXOTO (1908, Belgium − 1992, Brazil) became a legend on the basis of one extraordinary film he made at the age of 22, the silent film Limite (1931). He had the advantage of a European education in the 1920s and was clearly receptive to modernist, avant-garde cinema. His literary ambitions, which went as far back as 1930 and included poetry, short stories, theatrical plays and a six-volume novel (The Uselessness of Everyone), did not gain a wider response from the public, either. Peixoto passed away on 3 February 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Filmography
Limite (1931)
Mário Peixoto at IFFR
Limite
The most legendary silent film in Brazilian history about three shipwrecked people adrift in a small boat on the open sea.
120'
Brazil
IFFR 2008
Mosquito
Mozambique, 1917. Teenage soldier Zacarias travels alone through this Portuguese colony, dizzy with malaria. A film like a feverish dream.
122'
Portugal
IFFR 2020