Pedro Paiva
Directing
Portugal
46 credits
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Joao Maria Gusmao b. 1979, Pedro Paiva b. 1977. Live and work in Lisbon. The Portuguese artists Joao Maria Gusmao and Pedro Paiva have collaborated since 2001 on creating objects, installations and 16mm and 35mm short films. The duo describe their overall project as a kind of “recreational metaphysics,” a genre that to a certain extent they themselves have re-invented following the Portuguese poet Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa) on his layered aesthetical modern experiment on materialism. The short films depict staged episodes and sequences of pseudo-scientific experiments with both poetical and comical consequences. In recent years Gusmao and Paiva’s production has centered on the idea of movement and duration, both within the cinematographic vocabulary, with references to early film pioneers as Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey, and through the artists’ own practical experiments and conceptual invention.
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Filmography
Directing
43 credits
Sleeping Flamingo
Onça Geométrica
Wave
Hairy Stone
Fried Egg
Eye Eclipse
Pipe
Proboscis
Donkey
The Soup
Meteoritica
Cowfish
Turtle
Cassowary
Papagaio (Djambi)
The Initiate
Spaghetti Tornado
Wheels
3 Sóis
Glossolalia
Fruit Polyhedron
Water mill
Ventriloquismo
Pot Smaller than Pot
Motorcycle, Bike and Human Dots
A Coluna de Colombo
Under a car
Placing the Fisheye
A Moeda-Viva
Those Animals That, at a Distance, Resemble Flies
Dream of a Ray Fish
Three Albinos Telling Jokes by the Fireplace
Bread, Tea and Bao Game
Chopping Fruits and Vegetables
Solar, the Blindman Eating a Papaya
Triangles and Squares
Sleeping in a Bullet Train
The Horse of the Prophet
Benguelino Casting a Spell on the Camera
The Human Torch
Getting into bed
Hand Smaller than Hand
Tarciso’s Analogy
Acting
3 credits
Other credits
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