Edgar Pêra Trailers
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Total trailers found: 51
29 October 2016
He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and science-fiction.
28 January 2019
In 2016, Edgar Pêra released The Amazing Spectator, a playful investigation into cinema’s disquieting essence that had everything from negative film images of boobs and positively splendid interviews to a donkey hand puppet.
01 January 1993
A portrayal of Futurist artist José de Almada Negreiros, who said: "I wanted others to say of me: 'Look, a man!' The same way they say: 'Look, a dog!' when a dog passes by; or how you say: 'Look, a tree!', when there is a tree.
01 January 1996
Film made with Lisbon Theatre & Cinema students of 1995
01 January 2015
Abel Salazar, a scientist and an artist persecuted by the Fascist regime in the 40ies, is trying to finish a portrait, obsessed by the face of a woman.
23 August 2021
It is with images of Domingos de Oliveira Santos, a surgeon turned filmmaker, that Edgar Pêra composes a mosaic that goes beyond home videos, rushing beyond them.
19 October 2011
A school inspector travels to the baron’s fiefdom to write a report on a heathen teacher. Having arrived, he is invited to stay with the baron, who makes predictions about women, horses and politics while the mysterious Idalina serves food and drink.
16 September 1994
“Manual of Evasion LX94” is a thought-provoking Dadaist film about time by the Portuguese director Edgar Pêra.
01 January 2004
Short documentary about football (soccer) supporters in Portugal
14 August 2014
A dreamlike journey seen through the eyes of a trans-human as well as a kino-symphony of voices from the multiple personas of Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon Revisited shows alternative ways of looking at and hearing the city.
01 January 1996
Edmund Husserl observed: "All perception is a gamble", which Robert Anton Wilson expands upon when he suggests that "[others] just have a different reality tunnel, and every reality tunnel might tell us something interesting about our world, if we are willing to listen.
01 January 2006
Death is the great equalizer, if only due to the rites celebrated by the living. And thus, after their earthly existences ended, Ioannes Paulus PP.
31 December 1994
The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema.
30 October 2015
I am the double of the shadow of my own image. An allegory that occupies my place. This is my act of contrition.
01 January 1992
What happens when the testimonies of maimed Colonial War veterans meet the visual universe of Marvel comics?
18 April 2012
One Way Or Another (Reflections of a Psycho Killer) is a film about an urban misanthrope, wandering in the city of Busan, looking for his victims, in the midst of a faceless crowd.
01 January 1998
Animated experimental short-film by Edgar Pêra with Akademya Luzoh-Galaktika students. A cinematic homage to Max Ernst, Dziga Vertov, Jan Lenica, Terry Gilliam & Aurélio Paz dos Reis.
28 November 2007
A bizarre and tragic ballad of an impossible love between a nameless topographer and Leonor in a swamp soon to be destroyed by the forces of Man.
04 November 2004
This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) that lives in a small portuguese town during the 50's.
21 April 2023
Pessoa famously published under many heteronyms: around 75 different names, each with fully fleshed-out backgrounds, styles, appearances and philosophies.
29 January 2016
A kino-investigation about spectatorship, a continuous conversation between different kinds of spectators: which one is more cinema: Citizen Kane on a mobile phone or a football game projected in a cinema theatre?
01 January 2007
A journey through the 80’s music scene in Portugal, gathering archive material shot and edited by Pêra, showing the filming process of music videos, concerts, band rehearsals and the last concert presented at the Rock Rendez Vous.
06 October 2022
Tommi Musturi is one of today’s most complex comic book authors. Much like a chameleon, this artist employs different illustration styles to create comics without ever losing his creative identity.
01 January 1993
Since the Nazis infamously used Manchester Liberalism-apologist Heinrich Beta’s dictum Labour Liberates at the gates of several concentration and extermination camps, work has lost all positive values and connotations.
05 May 2018
A poetic film that celebrates the work of Alberto Pimenta, fruit of a friendship and complicity maintained during the last 24 years.
14 May 2019
Cine-diaries about rock bands and personalities from the eighties from the archives of Edgar Pêra.
23 October 2000
On All Saint’s Day 1755, around 09:40 hours, Lisbon was hit by an earthquake which eradicated almost the entire city.
06 October 2022
José Carlos Fernandes is one of the most original Portuguese comic book authors. He has published more than 30 books, particularly the award-wining series A Pior Banda do Mundo.
01 January 2018
"Oh salty sea, how much of your salt / Are tears of Portugal! / To get across you, how many mothers cried, / How many sons prayed in vain! // How many brides were never to marry / In order to make you ours, oh sea! / Was it worth it? Everything is worthy / If the soul is not small.
06 October 2022
Edgar Pêra interviews writer and comic book author Neil Gaiman at BD Forum Lisbon in 2003. A conversation about Gaiman’s work, which combines elements of terror with phantasy and political remarks on contemporary world, blending narrative genres.
01 January 2007
Documentary about 4 large architectural landmarks that projected Portugal abroad.
01 December 2005
Braga’s Estádio Municipal was erected for the EURO 2004 championships. So can it be a surprise that the first association this all-seater arena provokes is a Roman circus, with a disconcerting Estado Novo-finish?
22 May 2013
A triptych of short stereoscopic films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard and Edgar Pêra. Includes "The Three Disasters" by Godard, "Cinesapiens" by Pêra and "Just in Time" by Greenaway.
25 April 2019
During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.
22 May 1987
A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist and emotion journalist.
10 November 2001
A 14-year-old kid, addicted to videogames, goes with his parents to a shopping mall and separates from them to go to a game store called UTOPYA.
13 September 2024
A series of deeply personal short films centered around the debut album of the musical duo Pornographie Exclusive (Severine Cayron and Jerome Vandewattyne).
18 December 2016
Seven competing reporters are assigned to cover the Carnavael de Torres Vedras in Lisbon. Each of the seven tries to attract as much audience as possible to their broadcast.
01 January 2009
Crime Blue Abyss Physical Remorse is inspired by the life and works of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. This controversial 20th century painter defied the world avant-garde of his time: “I don’t follow schools.
20 November 2014
João is a writer who one day wakes up suffering from a bout of selective amnesia: he can't remember that he's gay.
04 May 2006
The unconventional biography Perpetual Movements: A Cine Tribute to Carlos Paredes uses snippets of t
23 October 2000
Some years ago, the Palácio de São Bento suddenly shook from visitors singing Zeca Afonso’s 1972 Grândola, Vila Morena in protest against Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho’s neo-liberal politics.
01 January 1991
A short documentary about the works of Cassiano Branco, a modernist architect from Portugal
01 January 1998
Terrence McKenna: "What is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears.
08 August 2024
Lovecraft and Pessoa were among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Cartas Telepáticas
11 October 2001
An experimental and surreal film, a mix of weird and unusual "avant-gard" cinematography with some traditional icons of the Portuguese culture, like Fado or the typical neighbourhoods of Lisbon, in this case the "Bica" is a typical neighbourhood which is used as setting to the plot.
01 January 1990
In 1988, Lisbon’s Chiado was ravaged by a fire; now, some of the highest real estate property prices in Portugal are paid for a piece of this Álvaro Siza Vieira-renovated area.