Pedro Paiva
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A Moeda-Viva
Victor is a poor and submissive man who serves his general and the palace of an aristocratic family. Haunted by the red lips of his beloved Maria, he suffers unbearable hallucinations that lead him to the great precipice of death. “Illicit Trade” explores 3 texts by Georg Büchner - "Woyzeck", "Leonce and Lena" and “The Hessian Courier". A film adaptation of the German author's literary universe that is as anachronistic as imminently actual.0.0
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2024
A Moeda-Viva
Victor is a poor and submissive man who serves his general and the palace of an aristocratic family. Haunted by the red lips of his beloved Maria, he suffers unbearable hallucinations that lead him to the great precipice of death. “Illicit Trade” explores 3 texts by Georg Büchner - "Woyzeck", "Leonce and Lena" and “The Hessian Courier". A film adaptation of the German author's literary universe that is as anachronistic as imminently actual.0.0
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2024
Sleeping Flamingo
A silent 16mm film vertical portrait on sleeping flamingos.0.0
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2018
Salto no Vazio
The memories of the trip made by the couple of artists Cavi Borges and Patrícia Niedermeier are transformed into an essay film. The scenery consists of landscapes located in Brazil, the United States, Germany, Syria, France and Hungary, where a series of choreographies and other performances created by the two are recorded.0.0
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2017
Weil ich dich liebe
Felicitas Woll lives through the ups and downs of a relationship: Eva and Luis exchanged only a fleeting glance in hot summer Lisbon and knew - this is the real love! They threw themselves headlong into a passionate liaison, got married and had their first child. Everything was perfect. But now the two are on their way to the divorce lawyer. The big feelings have long since expired - at least that's how it seems ...0.0
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2016
Chopping Fruits and Vegetables
Short film consisting of multiple fruits and vegetables being chopped in stopmotion.0.0
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2016
Sleeping in a bullet train
A group of workers resting in one of the fastest commuter trains in the world. This quotidian situation, filmed in slow motion, creates a prolonged moment where the slumbering minds of the sleepers are paradoxically framed with the velocity of the express train.0.0
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2015
Papagaio (Djambi)
A major new 16mm film work Papagaio (Djambi) 2014, shot in São Tomé and Príncipe (a Portuguese speaking Island nation off the western coast of Central Africa), bears witness to a West African voodoo ritual, known locally as D’Jambi. Whilst intoxicated, the participants dance and enter a state of trance in which they channel the spirits of the dead. At times the footage is shot by the artists, and at other moments the camera becomes an alibi, held and manoeuvred by one of the participants.0.0
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2014
Proboscis
An elephant’s proboscis in action.10.0
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2013
Triangles and Squares
An animated 16mm film by JMG+PP.10.0
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2013
Three Albinos Telling Jokes by the Fireplace
Three albinos telling jokes by the fireplace.10.0
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2013
Water mill
Short film by João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, filmed at Lohmuehle Leustetten.0.0
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2012
Those Animals That, at a Distance, Resemble Flies
16mm silent film.10.0
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2012
Placing the Fisheye
Short silent film.10.0
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2012
Wheels
“Wheels” is a film about relative motion as described by Descartes: if 2 objects are moving in the same direction and speed they seem to be still between each other. Inspired by Duchampian tradition, Pedro and João filmed a short chronicle of curved means of transportation in the tropics. Overlaying directly on the negative (camera editing) the feat of paradoxically freezing a moving bicycle wheel, a car wheel and anamorphic depiction of tire, João and Pedro constate that for that to happen everything else must be perceived as a gyroscope.0.0
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2011
Benguelino Casting a Spell on the Camera
16mm film, colour, no sound, 2'49" Co-Produced by São Tomé and Príncipe Biennale and Frac Île-de-France/Le Plateau, Paris.0.0
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2011
Solar, the Blindman Easting a Papaya
16mm film, colour, no sound, 2'35"0.0
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2011
Cowfish
Directed by João Maria Gusmão0.0
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2011
Dream of a Ray Fish
If a ray fish dreams…10.0
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2011
Getting into bed
A 16mm film by Joao Maria Gusmao + Pedro Paiva.0.0
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2011
The Horse of the Prophet
Directed by João Maria Gusmão e Pedro Paiva0.0
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2011
Bread, Tea and Bao Game
Food and drink transformed into unidentified flying objects.10.0
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2011
O Último Voo do Flamingo
Tizangara, Mozambique. After the peace agreement. A mystery. UN soldiers exploding. An investigation is begun and Massimo is appointed to solve the mystery. Joaquim will have to translate, not only the words but the facts, in order for him to understand.0.0
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2010
Pot Smaller than Pot
16mm film, colour, no sound, 2'25"0.0
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2010
Cassowary
An encounter at Jardim Zoológico de Lisboa shot in 16mm by JMG+PP.10.0
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2010
A Coluna de Colombo
João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva have produced a series of silent films in 16 mm and 35 mm that, scientifically yet with a touch of irony, present small physical actions and particular optical phenomena. Their inventories of nature and their perspective respond to a physical world that is visible and yet invisible, where the concrete is always presented as something concealed. Something that the filmmakers call “abyssology, a transitory science of the indiscernible”. The simple compositions and the tricks they adopt, such as the use of slow motion or superimposed images, are reminiscent of the silent films of the early days of cinema and the chronophotography of Étienne-Jules Marey.0.0
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2009
Hand Smaller than Hand
Directed by João Maria Gusmão e Pedro Paiva0.0
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2009
The Soup
Short silent film.10.0
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2009
Ventriloquismo
João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva have produced a series of silent films in 16 mm and 35 mm that, scientifically yet with a touch of irony, present small physical actions and particular optical phenomena. Their inventories of nature and their perspective respond to a physical world that is visible and yet invisible, where the concrete is always presented as something concealed. Something that the filmmakers call “abyssology, a transitory science of the indiscernible”. The simple compositions and the tricks they adopt, such as the use of slow motion or superimposed images, are reminiscent of the silent films of the early days of cinema and the chronophotography of Étienne-Jules Marey.0.0
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2009
3 Sóis
João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva have produced a series of silent films in 16 mm and 35 mm that, scientifically yet with a touch of irony, present small physical actions and particular optical phenomena. Their inventories of nature and their perspective respond to a physical world that is visible and yet invisible, where the concrete is always presented as something concealed. Something that the filmmakers call “abyssology, a transitory science of the indiscernible”. The simple compositions and the tricks they adopt, such as the use of slow motion or superimposed images, are reminiscent of the silent films of the early days of cinema and the chronophotography of Étienne-Jules Marey.0.0
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2009
Meteoritica
A glassmaker removes an amber piece of molten glass from a high-temperature oven, rolls the glass in a tube, and lets a drop fall down in one continuous stretch to the floor.0.0
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2008
The Initiate
A rite of passage.10.0
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2008
Fried Egg
Fried eggs as a cosmic event.10.0
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2008
The Human Torch
16mm film, colour, no sound, 2’23’’ Produced by ZDB, Lisbon. Thanks to: Inhotim Cultural Center, Minas Gerais.0.0
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2007
Eye Eclipse
The eclipse of/on an eggshell.10.0
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2007