Edgar Pêra


Edgar Henrique Clemente Pêra is a Portuguese filmmaker. Pêra is also a fine artist and a graphic comics artist. and writes fiction and cinema essays.
Edgar Pêra studied Psychology, but switched to Film at the Portuguese National Conservatory, presently Lisbon Theatre and Film School.
Aka Mr. Ego, Man-Kamera, Artur Cyanetto.
Edgar Pêra has auto-financed and produced many his own movies, or directed "auteur films" for cultural institutions.
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Filmography

Features

Vida e Obra de Cassiano Branco/Life & Work of Cassiano Branco Manual de Evasão LX94/Manual Of Evasion LX94 A Janela /The Window Oito, oito/Eight Eight O Homem-Teatro/The Man-Theatre Movimentos Perpétuos: Cine-Tributo a Carlos Paredes/Perpetual Movements:Cine-Tribute to Carlos Paredes Rio Turvo/Muddy River Punk Is Not Daddy O Barão/The Baron Visões de Madredeus/Vision of Madredeus Cinesapiens segment from 3X3D Lisbon Revisited O Espectador Espantado/The Amazed Spectator Adeus Carne/Goodbye Flesho Homem-Pykante Diálogos Kom Pimenta/Spicy-Man Caminhos Magnétykos/Magnetick Pathways

Short films

Reproduta Interdita A Cidade de Cassiano/The City of Cassiano Matadouro/Slaughterhouse Guerra ou Paz?/War or Peace? Achbeit Macht Frei?/O Trabalho Liberta?/Work Liberates? SWK4 O Mundo Desbotado/Fading World Túneis de Realidade 25 de Abril: uma Aventura para a Democracia Guitarra /Guitar És a Nossa Fé/Our Faith Stadium Impending Doom Arquitectura de Peso/Heavy Architecture Crime Azul/Bleu Krime Avant La Corrida One Way Or another Stillness The Cavern Goodbye Flesh
  • ''KINO-POP ARCHIVES ''

Proto-Films

A Konspyração dos 1000 Tympanus/The 1000 Eardrums Konspiracy Champô Chaimite Os Homens-Toupeira/The Mole-man Saga
  • ''Horror no Bairro Vermelho /Horror in the Red District''

Films with students

The Day of The Musician by Eric Satie
  • ''The Misadventures of Man-Kamera Episodes 113 & 115''

Kino-Diaries(selection)

Rua Anchieta Busan 3D Kino-Diary My Father's Hometown/Viagem com o meu pai a Coimbra Planeland 4 Keep Moooving 1 Krashlanding in Lisbon-98 Cacilhas-Cascais

Video Installations

Trans-LX O Movimento da Pedra Videokorporis Não Há Flores! 666-O Triunfo do Azeite Incêndio no Museu Kabazov Satie live-mix FashionViktimz Bica Amor & Fakadas Konsciêncya Kantos Enokyanus Cinekomix Marvels Eskynas Agudas A Porta The Master Person Tapes/Os Filmes do Desassossego de Mestre Pessoa Fiquem Qom a Qultura, eu fiko kom o Brazzil Keep Mooving 2 Sub-Mundo
  • ''Lisboa Revisitada ''

Cine-Concerts (original films mixed with live-shooting by Pêra)

LOVECRAFTLAND Live Music by Randolph Carter FONTAÍNHAS Live Music by Rui Lima and Sérgio Martins VADE RETRO Live Music by Tó Trips and João Doce Kino-Ping-Pong Live Music by António Vitorino de Almeida Lima & Louro – Filmes de Lisboa Live Music by André Louro and João Lima Kino-Diaries live music by Micro Audiowaves and LIP Koktail Filmzz live music by João Lima Kino-Diaries live music by Novolari Granular Improvising with Microaudiowaves and LIP ABRIL-BRAZZIL live music by João Madeira SUDWESTERN music Dead Combo with performances by actors-singers NAKED MIND PROJEKT Live music by Vítor Rua Straxt! films for the concert of Lydia Lunch Kino-Super8 live music by Francisco Rebelo As Alucinações Estão Aí! Live music by Nuno Rebelo and Jean-Marc Mantera Eles Sempre Aí Estiveram Vizões Equações Radiações! live Music by Nuno Rebelo and Marco Franco Cine-Fado live music by Manuel João Vieira Ultimatum Futurista live music by Nuno Rebelo Cinerock live music by Tiago Lopes

Music vídeos

Madredeus at IFP Korações de Atum Mini musical movie Lello Minsk and Shegundo Galarza U ke Faz Falta? film commemorating the 25 of April revolution music selected by Miguel esteves Cardoso Zombietown23 Texts of Terence Mckenna Aleister Crowley and Fernando Pessoa. Commissioned by Expo 98 You DJ Vibe & Ithaka location: Tokyovideoclips for GNR, Rádio Macau, Madredeus, Resistência, Capitão Fantasma, LX90, Rão Kiao, Black Company, Djamal, Terrakota, The Legendary Tigerman, Bullet, No Data, Orlando Cohen, Remexido.

Criticism and Praise

  • "The montage is as relentless as the guitarist's finger-work, the footage as compelling as the music is poignant.", The Barbican on Perpetual Movements
  • "Cartoonishly weird comedy", The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre on The Window
"the find here is lesser known Portuguese director Pêra's weird and wacky whirlwind of a film; a sharply astute indictment of mainstream cinema and culture."
"Cinesapiens, keeps audiences guessing right to the final frame, ending with a surreal and haunting scene experience."
Cinesapiens: "pure visual chaos"