Person
Pedro Paiva
Directing · Portugal
Biography
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.
Known for
Sleeping Flamingo
Director
A Moeda-Viva
Director
Salto no Vazio
Cinematography
Eye Eclipse
Director
Cowfish
Director
Spaghetti Tornado
Director
Onça Geométrica
Director
Fruit Polyhedron
Director
Turtle
Director
Water mill
Director
Filmography
- 2024A Moeda-VivaDirector
- 2018Sleeping FlamingoDirector
- 2017Salto no VazioCinematography
- 2016Weil ich dich liebeGaffer
- 2016Chopping Fruits and VegetablesDirector
- 2015Sleeping in a Bullet TrainDirector
- 2014PipeDirector
- 2014Motorcycle, Bike and Human DotsDirector
- 2014GlossolaliaDirector
- 2014Papagaio (Djambi)Director
- 2013Onça GeométricaDirector
- 2013Three Albinos Telling Jokes by the FireplaceDirector
- 2013ProboscisDirector
- 2013Triangles and SquaresDirector
- 2012Placing the FisheyeDirector
- 2012Those Animals That, at a Distance, Resemble FliesDirector
- 2012Water millDirector
- 2011WheelsDirector
- 2011TurtleDirector
- 2011DonkeyDirector
- 2011Under a carDirector
- 2011Benguelino Casting a Spell on the CameraDirector
- 2011WaveDirector
- 2011Solar, the Blindman Eating a PapayaDirector
- 2011Dream of a Ray FishDirector
- 2011Bread, Tea and Bao GameDirector
- 2011The Horse of the ProphetDirector
- 2011Getting into bedDirector
- 2011CowfishDirector
- 2010O Último Voo do FlamingoElectrician
- 2010Spaghetti TornadoDirector
- 2010CassowaryDirector
- 2010Pot Smaller than PotDirector
- 2009The SoupDirector
- 2009Hand Smaller than HandDirector
- 20093 SóisDirector
- 2009VentriloquismoDirector
- 2009A Coluna de ColomboDirector
- 2009Tarciso’s AnalogyDirector
- 2009Hairy StoneDirector
- 2009Fruit PolyhedronDirector
- 2008MeteoriticaDirector
- 2008The InitiateDirector
- 2008Fried EggDirector
- 2007The Human TorchDirector
- 2007Eye EclipseDirector
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