João Maria Gusmão
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- Directing
- Birthplace
- Portugal
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.
Filmography
Sleeping Flamingo 2018
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Chopping Fruits and Vegetables 2016
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Sleeping in a Bullet Train 2015
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Motorcycle, Bike and Human Dots 2014
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Pipe 2014
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Glossolalia 2014
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Papagaio (Djambi) 2014
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Onça Geométrica 2013
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Triangles and Squares 2013
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Proboscis 2013
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Three Albinos Telling Jokes by the Fireplace 2013
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Water mill 2012
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Those Animals That, at a Distance, Resemble Flies 2012
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Placing the Fisheye 2012
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Wheels 2011
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Turtle 2011
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Donkey 2011
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Under a car 2011
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Benguelino Casting a Spell on the Camera 2011
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Wave 2011
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Solar, the Blindman Eating a Papaya 2011
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Getting into bed 2011
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The Horse of the Prophet 2011
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Cowfish 2011
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Bread, Tea and Bao Game 2011
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Dream of a Ray Fish 2011
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Spaghetti Tornado 2010
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Pot Smaller than Pot 2010
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Heat Ray 2010
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Cassowary 2010
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Fruit Polyhedron 2009
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Hairy Stone 2009
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Tarciso’s Analogy 2009
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A Coluna de Colombo 2009
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Ventriloquismo 2009
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3 Sóis 2009
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Hand Smaller than Hand 2009
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The Soup 2009
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Meteoritica 2008
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Fried Egg 2008
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The Initiate 2008
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The Human Torch 2007
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Eye Eclipse 2007
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Credits from TMDB.