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
Filmography
- A Moeda-Viva · Director, Editing
- Sleeping Flamingo · Director
- Salto no Vazio · Cinematography
- Weil ich dich liebe · Gaffer
- Chopping Fruits and Vegetables · Director
- Sleeping in a Bullet Train · Director
- Pipe · Director
- Motorcycle, Bike and Human Dots · Director
- Glossolalia · Director
- Papagaio (Djambi) · Director
- Onça Geométrica · Director
- Three Albinos Telling Jokes by the Fireplace · Director
- Proboscis · Director
- Triangles and Squares · Director
- Those Animals That, at a Distance, Resemble Flies · Director
- Placing the Fisheye · Director
- Water mill · Director
- Wheels · Director
- Turtle · Director
- Donkey · Director
- Under a car · Director
- Benguelino Casting a Spell on the Camera · Director
- Wave · Director
- Solar, the Blindman Eating a Papaya · Director
- Dream of a Ray Fish · Director
- Bread, Tea and Bao Game · Director
- The Horse of the Prophet · Director
- Getting into bed · Director
- Cowfish · Director
- O Último Voo do Flamingo · Electrician
- Spaghetti Tornado · Director
- Cassowary · Director
- Pot Smaller than Pot · Director
- The Soup · Director
- Hand Smaller than Hand · Director
- 3 Sóis · Director
- Ventriloquismo · Director
- A Coluna de Colombo · Director
- Tarciso’s Analogy · Director
- Hairy Stone · Director
- Fruit Polyhedron · Director
- Meteoritica · Director
- Fried Egg · Director
- The Initiate · Director
- The Human Torch · Director
- Eye Eclipse · Director