Edgar Pêra Movies

Crime Blue Abyss Physical Remorse is inspired by the life and works of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. This controversial 20th century painter defied the...

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...

Short documentary about football (soccer) supporters in Portugal

Abel Salazar, a scientist and an artist persecuted by the Fascist regime in the 40ies, is trying to finish a portrait, obsessed by the face of a...

On All Saint’s Day 1755, around 09:40 hours, Lisbon was hit by an earthquake which eradicated almost the entire city. 345 years later (D.T. =...

A short documentary about the works of Cassiano Branco, a modernist architect from Portugal

"Oh salty sea, how much of your salt / Are tears of Portugal! / To get across you, how many mothers cried, / How many sons prayed in vain! // How...

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...

It is with images of Domingos de Oliveira Santos, a surgeon turned filmmaker, that Edgar Pêra composes a mosaic that goes beyond home videos,...

A journey through the 80’s music scene in Portugal, gathering archive material shot and edited by Pêra, showing the filming process of...

Lovecraft and Pessoa were among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Cartas Telepáticas is a film, created with AI images, that...

Death is the great equalizer, if only due to the rites celebrated by the living. And thus, after their earthly existences ended, Ioannes Paulus PP....

Film made with Lisbon Theatre & Cinema students of 1995

Edmund Husserl observed: "All perception is a gamble", which Robert Anton Wilson expands upon when he suggests that "[others] just have a different...

Braga’s Estádio Municipal was erected for the EURO 2004 championships. So can it be a surprise that the first association this...

Animated experimental short-film by Edgar Pêra with Akademya Luzoh-Galaktika students. A cinematic homage to Max Ernst, Dziga Vertov, Jan...

An experimental and surreal film, a mix of weird and unusual "avant-gard" cinematography with some traditional icons of the Portuguese culture, like...

A portrayal of Futurist artist José de Almada Negreiros, who said: "I wanted others to say of me: 'Look, a man!' The same way they say: 'Look,...

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...