Filmed Artists
Cycle The Gulbenkian and Portuguese Cinema - 4th edition
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Date
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Location
Modern Collection – Multi Use RoomR. Dr. Nicolau Bettencourt, Lisbon
FILM 1
Out of the nature of things
Director: Luís Miguel Correia
Portugal, 2003
Duration: 36 minutes
Copy provided by the director
Final debate with the curator and the director
SYNOPSIS
A documentary about the work of Carlos Nogueira. The film follows the fundamental stages involved in the preparation of a series of exhibitions: the conception, the definition and transformation of the materials, and the installation of the sculptural elements.
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Directed and edited by: Luís Miguel Correia
Image: Luís Miguel Correia, João Fagundes
Sound: João Paulo Oliveira, Luís Miguel Correia
Researcher: Maria João Soares
Production manager: João Paulo Oliveira, Patrícia Ribeiro e Silva
Production: Laboratory of Cinematographic Creation, FCSH-NOVA University of Lisbon
Supported for film production, 2003, by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation under the Laboratory of Cinematographic Creation of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Nova University of Lisbon
Luís Miguel Correia was born in 1977 in Santa Iria de Azóia, Portugal. He completed a degree in Media Studies/Film at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University of Lisbon. He has directed two documentaries about Portuguese artists produced by FCSH-NOVA’s Laboratory of Cinematographic Creation (LABCC) and funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation: Fernando Calhau - Work in Progress (2001) and Out of the Nature of Things (2003) about the sculptor Carlos Nogueira. He attended the Gulbenkian’s Creativity and Artistic Production Programme’s Filmmaking Course and Cinema Scriptwriting Course, both organised in association with the London Film School. He directed the short fiction film O Dedo [The Finger] (2005) as part of the former, followed by the short fiction film Estação [Season] (2007) produced by Raiva. He has directed a documentary about another Portuguese artist, Pedro Calapez – Trabalhos do Olhar [Works of the Gaze] (2009) for Midas Filmes and Crónica Parisiense [Parisian Chronicle] (2012) produced by Terratreme, based on an episode in the life of the Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça. He has also worked as an editor, cameraman, scriptwriter and assistant director on other films, collaborating with the directors Manuel Mozos, Pedro Caldas, Susana Nobre, João Rosas and Pedro Pinho, among others. He is currently completing the documentary project Santa Iria, which is in post-production.
(2001) Fernando Calhau – Work in Progress (short)
(2003) Da Natureza das Coisas (short)
(2005) O Dedo (short)
(2007) Estação (short)
(2009) Pedro Calapez – Trabalhos do Olhar (short)
(2012) Crónica Parisiense (short)
FILM 2
Blind runner – an artist under surveillance
Director: Luís Alves de Matos
2007
Duration: 58 minutes
Original version: Portuguese English, Spanish
Subtitles in Portuguese and English
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Final debate with the curator and the directors of this session
SYNOPSIS
Documentary about the artist João Louro. Appearing as a fiction film somewhere between a road movie and a thriller.
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Screenplay: Luís Alves de Matos
Photography: Luís Alves de Matos, Paulo Abreu
Sound: Hugo Alves
Editing: Hugo Santiago, Luís Alves de Matos
Music: Negative Land
With: João Louro, Raquel Dias, Murray Gordon Todd, Teddy Cruz, Delfim Sardo, George Armaos, Ferran Barenblit, Alvaro Zuniga, Martin Margulies, Oswaldo Sanchéz.
Production: Amatar Filmes
Support for film production, in 2004, by the Fine Arts Department/ Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Luís Alves de Matos has a degree in directing from the Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema). He has collaborated on different contemporary production projects since 1993 and since then has directed a number of documental films about Portuguese artists. In 2001 he founded the production company Amatar Filmes to continue with the production and direction of documentaries in the field of contemporary art.
(1993) Eduardo Viana (medium lenght)
(1997) Mário Eloy – o Pintor em Fuga (medium lenght)
(1999) A Fazer o Mal (medium lenght)
(1999) Macau um Lugar em Comum (medium lenght)
(2000) O Modernismo Português) (short)
(2001) Últimos Dias (short)
(2001) João Penalva - Personagem e Intérprete (medium lenght)
(2002) Ana Hatherly - A Mão Inteligente (medium lenght)
(2003) Fernanda Fragateiro - Lugares Perfeitos (medium lenght)
(2004) A Praça (medium lenght)
(2005) Cinco Pintores da Modernidade Portuguesa (short)
(2005) Fiat Lux (short)
(2007) Lost in Art – Looking for Wittgenstein – co-realizado com João Louro (short)
(2009) Montanha Fria (short)
(2010) Luz Teimosa - Fernando Lemos (feature film)
(2012) Um Rio Chamado Ave (short)
(2014) Refúgio & Evasão (feature film)
(2015) Sombras (short)
(2016) O Passageiro (short)
(2017) Graça Morais e os Escritores (short)
(2018) Chão de Cal (short)