Pedro Paiva

Personal Info

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Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

-

Place of Birth

Portugal

Pedro Paiva

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 a...

Production

2017

Salto no Vazio

as Cinematography

2010

2012

2007

Eye Eclipse

as Director

2008

The Initiate

as Director

2008

Fried Egg

as Director

2011

2013

Proboscis

as Director

2009

The Soup

as Director

2013

2010

Cassowary

as Director

2011

Wheels

as Director

2014

2008

Meteoritica

as Director

2024

A Moeda-Viva

as Director

2016

2007

The Human Torch

as Director

2009

2011

Getting into bed

as Director

2018

2009

3 Sóis

as Director

2009

Ventriloquismo

as Director

2009

2010

2024

A Moeda-Viva

as Editor

2012

Water mill

as Director

2011

Cowfish

as Director

2009

2009

Hairy Stone

as Director

2009

Fruit Polyhedron

as Director

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