Personal Info
Birth date
1960-11-19 (64 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Directing
Place of birth
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Also known as
-Edgar Pêra
Biography
We dont have a biography for Edgar Pêra
Filmography
One-Way Ticket to the Other Side
NYR
Overview:
One-Way Ticket To The Other Side presents a series of deeply personal short films centered around the debut album of the musical duo Pornographie Exclusive (Severine Cayron and Jerome Vandewattyne). It is a cinematic, musical, and surreal journey that follows two stoic outlaws as they wander through a world suspended between end and beginning, dream and reality. Their road trip leads them through strange places and encounters with lost souls, immersing them in both absurd and philosophical reflections. Shot in a guerrilla filmmaking style with a warm, grainy look, each poetic tableau of their adventure weaves together the different segments of this unique anthology directed by international filmmakers. In these parallel realms, it is not the story that inspires the music, but rather the music that gives birth to the stories.3x3D
4.7
Overview:
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.Magnetick Pathways
10
Overview:
During a night of humiliation, Raymond lives an inner revolt and a kaleidoscopic journey in a country that is about to collapse.88
NYR
Overview:
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. He doesn't come back. His parents get in despair, and his father tries everything he can to bring him back.Inside Out
4.8
Overview:
João is a writer who one day wakes up suffering from a bout of selective amnesia: he can't remember that he's gay. So he decides to reject his partner of five years and he plunges into a new, unexpectedly hetero life. But, as the saying goes, it never rains but it pours: João also has a creative block, and is incapable of finishing his latest novel. Isabel, his rival in the literary world, is suffering from a similar case of writer's block. After a night spent together, Isabel steals João's novel and tries to publish it as her own.O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta
5
Overview:
A poetic film that celebrates the work of Alberto Pimenta, fruit of a friendship and complicity maintained during the last 24 years.Kiss Me
5.2
Overview:
This movie bring us a story about a woman named Laura (Marisa Cruz) that lives in a small portuguese town during the 50's. Tired of living in such a small town she travells to a bigger town, in which she'll have the opportunity to feel free.Manual of Evasion LX94
7
Overview:
“Manual of Evasion LX94” is a thought-provoking Dadaist film about time by the Portuguese director Edgar Pêra. It was shot in Lisbon in 1994 and stars Terence McKenna, Robert Anton Wilson and Rudy Rucker. Time is explored from many unusual angles, while Pêra fills the screen with a wide variety of bizarre and mind-warping imagery.The Nothingness Club
NYR
Overview:
Pessoa famously published under many heteronyms: around 75 different names, each with fully fleshed-out backgrounds, styles, appearances and philosophies. Taking this a step further, Não Sou Nada gives flesh to these characters, all working together under Pessoa, enacted by Miguel Borges, at the publishing house The Nothingness Club.Repórter X
NYR
Overview:
A story about character created by Reinaldo Ferreira (1897-1935), action reporter, mystery novelist and emotion journalist.Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista
6.5
Overview:
The city during the beginning of cinema. The typical city at the time of the dictatorship. The New Lisbon of the New Cinema. Lisbon after the Revolution. The white city of foreigners. A geographical and moviegoer screenplay of Lisbon through the images of films and testimonies of several filmmakers who filmed in Lisbon.The Amazed Spectator
6.2
Overview:
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? What is the cinema of uncertainty? How many kinds of amazement exist? Does fear and belief precede amazement? What are the rights and duties of the spectator? Is the essay film a manifesto against voyeurism? Should spectators be paid? What amazes the spectator of this day and age?The Baron
7
Overview:
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. The inspector becomes inextricably entangled in the baron’s world.In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo
NYR
Overview:
He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti, esoteric allegory, supernatural, and science-fiction. Without state subsidies, he would quit filmmaking in the 1990s. Who remembers António de Macedo?Rio Turvo
NYR
Overview:
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. She (Teresa Salgueiro, ethereal voice of Madredeus) is the “swamp-flower”, protégée of a Socratic Director (and his goat Plato). In a world without women, she is kept safe from the temptations of the flesh by her strict and grotesque Aunt. The sound-track entirely played by the workers (fado and bossa nova singers) reveals parallel narratives of suspicion and conspiracy that unfold to the pace of the unconscious leading to a confrontation between Man and River. Inspired by a hypnotic story by Branquinho da Fonseca (1905-1974).Crime Abyss Blue Physical Remorse
4
Overview:
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. I am an impressionist, cubist, futurist, abstractionist. A melting pot. The real tradition is not to try and relive the past – which is impossible to achieve – but rather something that sets up a follow-through, as happens with parents and children. A child and his father are never alike.” The film follows Amadeo’s motto. It crosses pictorial fiction – suggested by the emblematic picture “The Procession”, painted in Paris in 1913 – with Portuguese contemporary reality.Lisbon Revisited
5.5
Overview:
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. Celebrating its greatest phantom and confronting his ambiguous and pervasive sexuality, the film is spoken in the three languages in which Pessoa wrote, Portuguese, English and French.CINEKOMIX!!! Tommi Musturi
NYR
Overview:
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. Same as Pessoa, who granted his heteronyms different styles, Musturi makes use of a variety of languages according to the issue at stake.One Way or Another, Reflections of a Psycho Killer
NYR
Overview:
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.Heavy Architecture
NYR
Overview:
Documentary about 4 large architectural landmarks that projected Portugal abroad.The City of Cassiano
NYR
Overview:
A short documentary about the works of Cassiano Branco, a modernist architect from PortugalZombietown 23
NYR
Overview:
Terrence McKenna: "What is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears." Aleister Crowley: "I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union." Pessoa: "We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone." A music-text-collage-trance.Reproduta interdita
7
Overview:
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. Reproduta interdita was one of Pêra’s first (and certainly weirdest) works to deal with the aftermath of this disaster.April 25 – An Adventure for Democracy
NYR
Overview:
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. Do the Carnation Revolution’s dreams live on in verses such as "On each corner there's a friend / In each face there's equality / Grândola, brown town / Land of fraternity"?Acting
2016In the Interstices of Reality or The Cinema of António de Macedo as Self
2015Ornament and Crime as Realizador Assassinado
2004Kiss Me as Pedro (Adult)
1994Lisboa no Cinema, Um Ponto de Vista as Unknown
1987Repórter X as Legionário
Directing
2024One-Way Ticket to the Other Side ... Director
2024Telepathic Letters ... Director
2023The Nothingness Club ... Director
2022CINEKOMIX!!! Tommi Musturi ... Director
2022CINEKOMIX!!! Neil Gaiman ... Director
2022CINEKOMIX!!! José Carlos Fernandes ... Director
2021Fitas Cirúrgykas ... Director
2019Arquivos Kino-Pop ... Director
2019Magnetick Pathways ... Director
2019Kinorama: Beyond the Walls of the Real ... Director
2018O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta ... Director
2018Portuguese Sea ... Director
2016Delírio em Las Vedras ... Director
2016The Amazed Spectator ... Director
2015A Caverna ... Director
2014Inside Out ... Director
2014Lisbon Revisited ... Director
20133x3D ... Director
2013CineSapiens ... Director
2012One Way or Another, Reflections of a Psycho Killer ... Director
2011The Baron ... Director
2009Crime Abyss Blue Physical Remorse ... Director
2007Rio Turvo ... Director
2007Heavy Architecture ... Director
2007Punk Is Not Daddy ... Director
2006Perpetual Movements: A Cine Tribute to Carlos Paredes ... Director
2006Impending Doom ... Director
2005Stadium (Phantas-Mix) ... Director
2004És a Nossa Fé ... Director
200288 ... Director
2001Oito por Oito ... Director
2001A Janela (Maryalva Mix) ... Director
2000Lisboa-Boa 345 A.E. ... Director
2000April 25 – An Adventure for Democracy ... Director
1998As desventuras du homem-kâmara – Epizohdyus 111, 113 & 115 ... Director
1998Zombietown 23 ... Director
1996A Day in the Musician Life ... Director
1996Who Is the Master Who Makes the Grass Green? ... Director
1994Manual of Evasion LX94 ... Director
1993SWK4 ... Director
1993O trabalho liberta? ... Director
1992Matadouro ... Director
1992War or Peace? ... Director
1991The City of Cassiano ... Director
1990Reproduta interdita ... Director
Writing
2024Telepathic Letters ... Screenplay
2023The Nothingness Club ... Screenplay
2018O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta ... Screenplay
2018Portuguese Sea ... Writer
2015A Caverna ... Screenplay
20133x3D ... Writer
2013CineSapiens ... Screenplay
2001A Janela (Maryalva Mix) ... Screenplay
2000April 25 – An Adventure for Democracy ... Writer
1996Who Is the Master Who Makes the Grass Green? ... Writer
1994Manual of Evasion LX94 ... Writer
1991The City of Cassiano ... Writer
1987Repórter X ... Writer
Camera
2018O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta ... Director of Photography
2016Delírio em Las Vedras ... Director of Photography
2014Lisbon Revisited ... Director of Photography
2012One Way or Another, Reflections of a Psycho Killer ... Director of Photography
Editing
2018O Homem Pykante - Diálogos com Pimenta ... Editor
2016Delírio em Las Vedras ... Editor
2016The Amazed Spectator ... Editor
2015A Caverna ... Editor
2015The Portrait ... Editor
2014Inside Out ... Editor
2014Lisbon Revisited ... Editor
2013CineSapiens ... Editor
2009Crime Abyss Blue Physical Remorse ... Editor
2000April 25 – An Adventure for Democracy ... Editor
1996Who Is the Master Who Makes the Grass Green? ... Editor
1993O trabalho liberta? ... Editor
1993SWK4 ... Editor
1992War or Peace? ... Editor
1991The City of Cassiano ... Editor
Production
2018Portuguese Sea ... Producer
1996Who Is the Master Who Makes the Grass Green? ... Producer
1990Reproduta interdita ... Producer
Creator
2015Virados do Avesso ... Creator